--- title: The Mole was spring-cleaning with brooms, dusters and a pail of whit… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 1: The… · tree and pragmatics description: The Mole was spring-cleaning with brooms, dusters and a pail of whitewash (a white paint for walls) till he had «dust in his throat and eyes» and an aching back. Who acts: Mole. 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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 (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:12 # text = The Mole was spring-cleaning with brooms, dusters and a pail of whitewash (a white paint for walls) till he had «dust in his throat and eyes» and an aching back. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Mole mole NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 4 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ _ 6 cleaning clean VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 brooms broom NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 dusters duster NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 pail pail NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 whitewash whitewash NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 19 punct _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 paint paint NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 appos _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 walls wall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ _ 22 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 19 punct _ _ 23 till till SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 26 « « PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ _ 27 dust dust NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 throat throat NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 conj _ _ 33 » » PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=36:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 35 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 aching ache ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **clean** | past · progressive | the Mole | | | | | with brooms and dusters and a pail of whitewash | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with broom=Instrument | | 2 | **have** | past | Mole | dust and a aching back | | Mole's throat and eyes | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dust=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:12`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×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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