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A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 1: The Wild Wood (winter, and the Mole sets out alone)» of the books course of Mova's primary school w --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/33-willows-ch3-part1-winter-and-the-way-to-the-wood/0/) [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 III,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/33-willows-ch3-part1-winter-and-the-way-to-the-wood/) / 0 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 1: The Wild Wood (winter, and the Mole sets out alone), sentence 0 The Mole has long wanted to meet the famous Badger, whom everyone talks about and nobody sees. **Who acts:** Mole, everyone, nobody · **What happens:** want, meet, talk about, see · **To what, where:** famous Badger This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 1: The Wild Wood (winter, and the Mole sets out alone)» 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, everyone, nobody), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:033-willows-ch3-part1-winter-and-the-way-to-the-wood.lesson:0 # text = The Mole has long wanted to meet the famous Badger, whom everyone talks about and nobody sees. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 033-willows-ch3-part1-winter-and-the-way-to-the-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): R8-pos-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Mole Mole PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 5 advmod _ _ 5 wanted want VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 Badger Badger PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 14 obj _ _ 13 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 14 nsubj _ _ 14 talks talk VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 15 about about ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 18 nsubj _ _ 18 sees see VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **want** | present · perfect | the Mole | | | | | long *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 2 | **meet** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Mole *not said here* | the famous Badger | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent badger=Co-Agent | | 3 | **talk about** | present | everyone | the famous Badger | | | | | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent whom=Patient | | 4 | **see** | present | nobody | | | | | about *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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:033-willows-ch3-part1-winter-and-the-way-to-the-wood.lesson:0`. **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/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, p…, 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/32-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze/39/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter III,…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/33-willows-ch3-part1-winter-and-the-way-to-the-wood/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/33-willows-ch3-part1-winter-and-the-way-to-the-wood/)