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title: The Mole tripped and cried «O my leg! ... — The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 4: Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Mole tripped and cried «O my leg! ... Who acts: Mole. 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 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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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 14

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The Mole tripped and cried «O my leg! ...

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**Who acts:** Mole · **What happens:** trip, cry · **To what, where:** leg

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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 (Mole), 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:14
# text = The Mole tripped and cried «O my leg! ...
# 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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Mole	mole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	tripped	trip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
7	O	O	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
11	...	...	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 | **trip** | past | the Mole |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the Mole *not said here* | my leg |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:14`.

**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): no change. **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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