--- title: The Mole thought it simply meant «some VERY careless and forgetful p… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 4: Th… · tree and pragmatics description: The Mole thought it simply meant «some VERY careless and forgetful person has left his door-scraper lying about in the middle of the Wild Wood» and said he'd complain «to—to somebody or other». Who acts: Mole, it, careless person, person. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mole, it, careless person, person), 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:24 # text = The Mole thought it simply meant «some VERY careless and forgetful person has left his door-scraper lying about in the middle of the Wild Wood» and said he'd complain «to—to somebody or other». # 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, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Mole Mole PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 simply simply ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 meant mean VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 7 « « PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 8 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 13 det _ _ 9 VERY very ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 careless careless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 forgetful forgetful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ _ 13 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 14 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 6 ccomp _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 17 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ _ 19 scraper scraper NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 20 lying lie VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 21 about about ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 Wild Wild PROPN NNP _ 28 amod _ _ 28 Wood Wood PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 29 » » PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 complain complain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 ccomp _ _ 35 « « PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 — — VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 xcomp _ _ 38 to to ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 somebody somebody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 37 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=37:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 40 or or CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 41 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=42:amod 42 » » PUNCT '' _ 39 punct _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the Mole | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **mean** | past | it | | | | | simply *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **leave** *in a quote* | present · perfect | some careless person | Mole's door scraper | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scraper=Theme | | 4 | **lie** *in a quote* | gerund | some careless person *not said here* | | | | | about the middle of the Wild Wood | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about middle=Location | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **complain** *speech: other* | would | person | | | | | | vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **—** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | person *not said here* | | | | | to somebody | tree rules | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:books:036-willows-ch3-part4-the-door-scraper.lesson:24`. **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, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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. 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