--- title: The horse walked along the towpath beside the canal, pulling the boa… — Rivers, canals and boats: locks, weirs, water-mi… · tree and pragmatics description: The horse walked along the towpath beside the canal, pulling the boat by a long rope, while someone on the boat steered with the tiller, a long handle at the back, just like the barge-woman in the book. Who acts: horse, someone. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse, someone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:041-rivers-canals-and-boats-locks-weirs-water-mills-barges-and-how-not-to-tip-a-rowing-boat.lesson:9 # text = The horse walked along the towpath beside the canal, pulling the boat by a long rope, while someone on the boat steered with the tiller, a long handle at the back, just like the barge-woman in the book. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 041-rivers-canals-and-boats-locks-weirs-water-mills-barges-and-how-not-to-tip-a-rowing-boat.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 along along ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 towpath towpath NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 beside beside ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 canal canal NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 pulling pull VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 by by ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 rope rope NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 while while SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 20 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 24 nsubj _ _ 21 on on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 steered steer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 tiller tiller NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 handle handle NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 appos _ _ 32 at at ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 36 just just ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 37 like like ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 39 barge barge NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 40 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 39 punct _ _ 41 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 42 in in ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **walk** | past | the horse | | | the canal | | along the towpath | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along towpath=Trajectory | | 2 | **pull** | gerund | the horse *not said here* | the boat | | | | by a long rope and the barge woman in the book | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme | | 3 | **steer** | past | someone | | | | | with the tiller | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:technology:041-rivers-canals-and-boats-locks-weirs-water-mills-barges-and-how-not-to-tip-a-rowing-boat.lesson:9`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. 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