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title: «"Well, never mind what done it," said the Mole, forgetting his gram… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 4: Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: «"Well, never mind what done it," said the Mole, forgetting his grammar in his pain.» — correct English would be «what did it». 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 cours
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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 19

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«"Well, never mind what done it," said the Mole, forgetting his grammar in his pain.» — correct English would be «what did it».

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**Who acts:** Mole · **What happens:** not mind, do, say, forget, pain · **To what, where:** stump, grammar, pain · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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:19
# text = «"Well, never mind what done it," said the Mole, forgetting his grammar in his pain.» — correct English would be «what did it».
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
3	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	mind	mind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:parataxis
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	nsubj	_	_
8	done	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Mole	Mole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	forgetting	forget	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	grammar	grammar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
23	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
24	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
25	correct	correct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	parataxis	_	_
27	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	parataxis	_	_
29	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct
30	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	33	obj	_	_
31	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	ccomp	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:nsubj
33	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **not** **mind** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **do** | past |  | stump |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | the Mole |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **forget** *in a quote* | gerund | the Mole *not said here* | Mole's grammar |  | Mole's pain |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **pain** *in a quote* |  | Mole |  |  |  |  |  | nom pain «state transitive»: poss=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:19`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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