--- title: The Mole digs at the water, misses it completely, flips over onto th… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 4: The… · tree and pragmatics description: The Mole digs at the water, misses it completely, flips over onto the Rat, grabs the side — and Sploosh! 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](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/4/) [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/) / 4 # 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 4 The Mole digs at the water, misses it completely, flips over onto the Rat, grabs the side — and Sploosh! **Who acts:** Mole · **What happens:** dig, miss, flip over, grab · **To what, where:** Sploosh, water, Rat, side 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:4 # text = The Mole digs at the water, misses it completely, flips over onto the Rat, grabs the side — and Sploosh! # 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): R3-conj-first ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Mole mole NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 digs dig VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 misses miss VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 completely completely ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 flips flip VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=8:conj 13 over over ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 onto onto ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 grabs grab VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 — - PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 Sploosh Sploosh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 24 ! ! 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 | **dig** | present | the Mole | Sploosh | | | | at the water | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.instrument PP.theme»: agent=Agent sploosh=Instrument at water=Theme | | 2 | **miss** | present | the Mole *not said here* | water | | | | completely *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 3 | **flip over** | present | the Mole *not said here* | | | the Rat | | over *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent onto rat=Destination | | 4 | **grab** | present | the Mole *not said here* | the side | | | | | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=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. 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