--- title: The Mole begs to unpack the basket by himself, gasping at every pack… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 2: The… · tree and pragmatics description: The Mole begs to unpack the basket by himself, gasping at every packet, and then, starving after his early start, he tucks in happily. Who acts: Mole, Badger. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 2: The River Bank (the picnic basket, the Wild Wood and the Wide World)» o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/26-willows-ch1-part2-the-river-and-the-wild-wood/10/) [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/26-willows-ch1-part2-the-river-and-the-wild-wood/) / 10 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 2: The River Bank (the picnic basket, the Wild Wood and the Wide World), sentence 10 The Mole begs to unpack the basket by himself, gasping at every packet, and then, starving after his early start, he tucks in happily. **Who acts:** Mole, Badger · **What happens:** beg, unpack, gasp, starve, tuck in, start · **To what, where:** basket, packet This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 2: The River Bank (the picnic basket, the Wild Wood and the Wide World)» 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, Badger), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:026-willows-ch1-part2-the-river-and-the-wild-wood.lesson:10 # text = The Mole begs to unpack the basket by himself, gasping at every packet, and then, starving after his early start, he tucks in happily. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 026-willows-ch1-part2-the-river-and-the-wild-wood.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Mole mole NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 begs beg VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 unpack unpack VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 basket basket NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 by by ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 5 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 gasping gasp VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 12 at at ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 14 det _ _ 14 packet packet NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 19 advmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 starving starve VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 20 after after ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 early early ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 start start NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 tucks tuck VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 27 in in ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 28 happily happily ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 29 . . 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 | **beg** *speech: request* | present | the Mole | | | | | | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **unpack** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Mole *not said here* | the basket | | | | by Badger | tree rules | | 3 | **gasp** | gerund | the Mole *not said here* | | | every packet | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **starve** | gerund | the Mole *not said here* | | | | after Badger's early start; then | | tree rules | | 5 | **tuck in** | present | Badger | | | | | happily *property* | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **start** | | Badger | | | | | | nom start «event transitive»: poss=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:books:026-willows-ch1-part2-the-river-and-the-wild-wood.lesson:10`. **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): 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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