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title: Not another word, but scrape—scrape and scratch and dig and hunt rou… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 4: Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Not another word, but scrape—scrape and scratch and dig and hunt round, especially on the sides of the hummocks, if you want to sleep dry and warm to-night, for it's our last chance!» Who acts: you, beast. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 4: The Wild Wood (the doo
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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 30

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Not another word, but scrape—scrape and scratch and dig and hunt round, especially on the sides of the hummocks, if you want to sleep dry and warm to-night, for it's our last chance!»

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**Who acts:** you, beast · **What happens:** scrape, scratch, dig, hunt, want, sleep · **To what, where:** last chance

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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 (you, beast), 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:30
# text = Not another word, but scrape—scrape and scratch and dig and hunt round, especially on the sides of the hummocks, if you want to sleep dry and warm to-night, for it's our last chance!»
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
2	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	scrape	scrape	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
8	scrape	scrape	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=6:conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	scratch	scratch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	dig	dig	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:conj
15	round	round	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	hummocks	hummock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	xcomp	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	_
35	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
37	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
39	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
40	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
41	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	advcl	_	_
43	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
44	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:punct|HaikuPos=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 | **scrape** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | round *property* | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **scrape** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **scratch** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **dig** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **hunt** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **want** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 7 | **sleep** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | dry *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **is a** | present | beast | our last chance |  |  |  |  | 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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**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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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