--- title: He dug up his tunnel: «he scraped and scratched and scrabbled and sc… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 1: The… · tree and pragmatics description: He dug up his tunnel: «he scraped and scratched and scrabbled and scrooged», muttering to himself «Up we go! Who acts: Mole, we. 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 --- [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/14/) [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/) / 14 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 1: The River Bank (the Mole leaves his spring-cleaning and meets the Rat), sentence 14 He dug up his tunnel: «he scraped and scratched and scrabbled and scrooged», muttering to himself «Up we go! **Who acts:** Mole, we · **What happens:** dig up, scrape, scratch, scrabble, scrooge, mutter · **To what, where:** tunnel, Mole · **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, we), 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:14 # text = He dug up his tunnel: «he scraped and scratched and scrabbled and scrooged», muttering to himself «Up we go! # 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): R3-conj-first ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 dug dig VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 up up ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 tunnel tunnel NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 7 « « PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 scraped scrape VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 scratched scratch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 scrabbled scrabble VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 scrooged scrooge VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj 16 » » PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 muttering mutter VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 18 obl _ _ 21 « « PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 22 Up up ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 23 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 parataxis _ _ 25 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: exclamation - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dig up** | past | Mole | Mole's tunnel | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **scrape** *in a quote* | past | Mole | | | | | | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **scratch** *in a quote* | past | Mole *not said here* | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **scrabble** *in a quote* | past | Mole *not said here* | | | | | | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **scrooge** *in a quote* | past | Mole *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **mutter** *speech: express* | gerund | Mole *not said here* | | Mole | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic | | 7 | **go** *in a quote* | present | we | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:14`. **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): R3-conj-first ×2, R7-rel-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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