--- title: Suddenly he throws down his brush, says «Hang spring-cleaning!» and… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 1: The… · tree and pragmatics description: Suddenly he throws down his brush, says «Hang spring-cleaning!» and digs his way up into the sunshine of a big meadow. Who acts: Mole. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 1: The River Bank (the Mole leaves his spring-cleaning and meets the Rat)» of the books course of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/25-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river/1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, pa…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/25-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river/) / 1 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 1: The River Bank (the Mole leaves his spring-cleaning and meets the Rat), sentence 1 Suddenly he throws down his brush, says «Hang spring-cleaning!» and digs his way up into the sunshine of a big meadow. **Who acts:** Mole · **What happens:** throw down, say, hang, dig up · **To what, where:** brush, spring cleaning, way · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 1: The River Bank (the Mole leaves his spring-cleaning and meets the Rat)» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mole), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:025-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river.lesson:1 # text = Suddenly he throws down his brush, says «Hang spring-cleaning!» and digs his way up into the sunshine of a big meadow. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 025-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 Suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 throws throw VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 down down ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 brush brush NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 « « PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 10 Hang hang VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 ccomp _ _ 11 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:obj 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ _ 13 cleaning cleaning NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj 14 ! ! PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ 15 » » PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 digs dig VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 up up ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 21 into into ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 sunshine sunshine NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 meadow meadow NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **throw down** | present | Mole | Mole's brush | | | | suddenly *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brush=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: express* | present | Mole *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **hang** *in a quote* | infinitive | | spring cleaning | | | | | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cleaning=Patient | | 4 | **dig up** | present | Mole *not said here* | Mole's way | | | | into the sunshine of a big meadow | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent way=Instrument into sunshine=Patient | 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:books:025-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river.lesson:1`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2. **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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