--- title: The Mole falls over backwards in delight and praises the Rat's cleve… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 4: Th… · tree and pragmatics description: The Mole falls over backwards in delight and praises the Rat's clever step-by-step thinking at great length. Who acts: Mole, step. 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 p --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/36-willows-ch3-part4-the-door-scraper/12/) [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/36-willows-ch3-part4-the-door-scraper/) / 12 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 4: The Wild Wood (the door-scraper, the door-mat, and a green door), sentence 12 The Mole falls over backwards in delight and praises the Rat's clever step-by-step thinking at great length. **Who acts:** Mole, step · **What happens:** fall over, praise, think, step · **To what, where:** delight, clever step, great length, Rat 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 (Mole, step), 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:12 # text = The Mole falls over backwards in delight and praises the Rat's clever step-by-step thinking at great length. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Mole mole NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 falls fall VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 over over ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 backwards backward ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 delight delight NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 praises praise VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod:poss _ _ 12 's 's PART POS _ 11 case _ _ 13 clever clever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 step step NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ _ 16 by by ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ _ 18 step step NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:appos 19 thinking think VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 acl _ _ 20 at at ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 length length NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fall over** | present | the Mole | | | delight | | backward *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in delight=Location | | 2 | **praise** | present | the Mole *not said here* | the Rat's clever step | | | | by step | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Theme | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | step *not said here* | | | great length | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **step** | | step | the Rat | | | | | nom step «act transitive»: poss=patient by=agent | 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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