--- title: The Mole «had to brush away a tear or two with the back of his paw. — The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 4: The… · tree and pragmatics description: The Mole «had to brush away a tear or two with the back of his paw. Who acts: Mole. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 4: The River Bank (the Mole grabs the oars, the boat goes over, and a friendship begins)» of the books course of Mova's primary school with its depen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/28-willows-ch1-part4-sploosh/34/) [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/28-willows-ch1-part4-sploosh/) / 34 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 4: The River Bank (the Mole grabs the oars, the boat goes over, and a friendship begins), sentence 34 The Mole «had to brush away a tear or two with the back of his paw. **Who acts:** Mole · **What happens:** have, brush away · **To what, where:** tear This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 4: The River Bank (the Mole grabs the oars, the boat goes over, and a friendship begins)» 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:028-willows-ch1-part4-sploosh.lesson:34 # text = The Mole «had to brush away a tear or two with the back of his paw. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 028-willows-ch1-part4-sploosh.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, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Mole mole NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 4 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 brush brush VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 away away ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 tear tear NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 conj _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 paw paw NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **have** *in a quote* | past | the Mole | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **brush away** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Mole *not said here* | a tear | | | | with the back of Mole's paw; away *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent tear=Destination with back=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:028-willows-ch1-part4-sploosh.lesson:34`. **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, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, pa…, 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/28-willows-ch1-part4-sploosh/33/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, pa…, 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/28-willows-ch1-part4-sploosh/35/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/28-willows-ch1-part4-sploosh/)