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title: They dig — and there, in the side of a snow-bank, is a solid little… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 4: Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: They dig — and there, in the side of a snow-bank, is a solid little dark-green door with an iron bell-pull and a brass plate: MR. Who acts: mounds. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 4: The Wild Wood (the door-scraper, the door-mat, and a green door)» of the books c
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 4: The Wild Wood (the door-scraper, the door-mat, and a green door), sentence 11

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They dig — and there, in the side of a snow-bank, is a solid little dark-green door with an iron bell-pull and a brass plate: MR.

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**Who acts:** mounds · **What happens:** dig, be · **To what, where:** solid little green door

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 4: The Wild Wood (the door-scraper, the door-mat, and a green door)» 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 (mounds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:036-willows-ch3-part4-the-door-scraper.lesson:11
# text = They dig — and there, in the side of a snow-bank, is a solid little dark-green door with an iron bell-pull and a brass plate: MR.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 036-willows-ch3-part4-the-door-scraper.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
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	dig	dig	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	_
14	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
18	solid	solid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
19	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
20	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:amod
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	_
22	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
26	iron	iron	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
27	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	_
29	pull	pull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	brass	brass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	plate	plate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
34	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
35	MR.	MR.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	appos	_	_
```

## 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 | **dig** | present | mounds *= mound* |  |  | there |  |  | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | mounds *= mound* *not said here* | a solid little green door |  |  |  | with a iron bell pull and a brass plate | tree rules |

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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:036-willows-ch3-part4-the-door-scraper.lesson:11`.

**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. **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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