--- title: Mole says the footsteps sound like someone «walking in carpet slippe… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 1: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics description: Mole says the footsteps sound like someone «walking in carpet slippers that were too large for him and down at heel» — «which was intelligent of Mole, because that was exactly what it was». (Down at heel = worn out and squashed at the back.) Who acts: Mole, footsteps, that. 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(Down at heel = worn out and squashed at the back.) **Who acts:** Mole, footsteps, that · **What happens:** say down, sound, walk, be, worn out, squash · **To what, where:** carpet slippers, heel, back · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 1: Mr. Badger (the door in the snow and the fire-lit kitchen)» 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, footsteps, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:037-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger.lesson:10 # text = Mole says the footsteps sound like someone «walking in carpet slippers that were too large for him and down at heel» — «which was intelligent of Mole, because that was exactly what it was». (Down at heel = worn out and squashed at the back.) # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 037-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×4 1 Mole Mole PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 footsteps footstep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 sound sound VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 6 like like ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 8 compound _ _ 8 « « PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 9 walking walk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 carpet carpet NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 slippers slipper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 13 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 14 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 too too ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 down down ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 21 at at ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 heel heel NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 23 » » PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:.:_ 24 — - PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 25 « « PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 27 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 intelligent intelligent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 ccomp _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 Mole Mole PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 31 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 32 because because SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 33 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 36 nsubj _ _ 34 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 35 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 28 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:obl 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 acl:relcl _ _ 39 » » PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ _ 41 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 42 punct _ _ 42 Down down ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 43 at at ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 heel heel NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obl _ _ 45 = = PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 46 worn worn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 ccomp _ _ 47 out out ADP RP _ 46 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=46:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 49 squashed squash VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 46 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=47:conj 50 at at ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 51 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 52 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obl _ _ 53 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 54 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say down** *speech: assert* | present | Mole | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **sound** | present | the footsteps | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **walk** *in a quote* | gerund | the footsteps *not said here* | | | carpet slippers | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in slipper=Trajectory | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | past | that | | | | | for Mole; large *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | past | | | | | | of Mole; intelligent *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | that | | | | | exactly *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **worn out** | infinitive | | | | heel | | | tree rules | | 8 | **squash** | participle | | | | the back | | | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent at back=Trajectory | 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:037-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger.lesson:10`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×4. **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/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, p…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/37-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger/8/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, p…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/37-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/37-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger/)