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title: He searched «the whole ground, and all the time calling out cheerful… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 3: Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: He searched «the whole ground, and all the time calling out cheerfully, "Moly, Moly, Moly! Who acts: Rat. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 3: The Wild Wood (the Rat finds the Mole, and the snow comes)» of the books course of Mova's primary school with its dependen
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 3: The Wild Wood (the Rat finds the Mole, and the snow comes), sentence 17

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He searched «the whole ground, and all the time calling out cheerfully, "Moly, Moly, Moly!

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**Who acts:** Rat · **What happens:** search, call out · **To what, where:** whole ground, Moly

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 3: The Wild Wood (the Rat finds the Mole, and the snow comes)» 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 (Rat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:035-willows-ch3-part3-snow-in-the-wild-wood.lesson:17
# text = He searched «the whole ground, and all the time calling out cheerfully, "Moly, Moly, Moly!
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 035-willows-ch3-part3-snow-in-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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	searched	search	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	cheerfully	cheerfully	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Moly	moly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	Moly	moly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Moly	moly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **search** | past | Rat | the whole ground |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent ground=Location |
| 2 | **call out** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | gerund | Rat *not said here* | Moly and Moly and Moly |  |  | time | cheerfully *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent moly=Recipient |

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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:035-willows-ch3-part3-snow-in-the-wild-wood.lesson:17`.

**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 ×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/).

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