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title: The Mole squeezes his paw in the dark and offers to run home with hi… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 3: The… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Mole squeezes his paw in the dark and offers to run home with him at dawn. Who acts: Mole. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 3: The Open Road (life on the road, and a motor-car)» of the books course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 3: The Open Road (life on the road, and a motor-car), sentence 5

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The Mole squeezes his paw in the dark and offers to run home with him at dawn.

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**Who acts:** Mole · **What happens:** squeeze, offer, run · **To what, where:** paw, dark

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 3: The Open Road (life on the road, and a motor-car)» 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:031-willows-ch2-part3-poop-poop.lesson:5
# text = The Mole squeezes his paw in the dark and offers to run home with him at dawn.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 031-willows-ch2-part3-poop-poop.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): R8-pos-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Mole	Mole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	squeezes	squeeze	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	paw	paw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	dark	dark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:obl|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	offers	offer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	home	home	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **squeeze** | present | the Mole | Mole's paw |  | the dark |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent paw=Theme in dark=Trajectory |
| 2 | **offer** | present | the Mole *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **run** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Mole *not said here* |  |  |  | dawn | with Mole; home *property* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with he=Material |

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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.

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**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:031-willows-ch2-part3-poop-poop.lesson:5`.

**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): R8-pos-agree ×2. **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/).

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