--- title: The Otter asks the Mole to fry him some ham, and the Mole sets the h… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 3: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics description: The Otter asks the Mole to fry him some ham, and the Mole sets the hedgehogs to do it. Who acts: Otter, Mole. 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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 (Otter, Mole), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:039-willows-ch4-part3-the-otter-and-underground-homes.lesson:5 # text = The Otter asks the Mole to fry him some ham, and the Mole sets the hedgehogs to do it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 039-willows-ch4-part3-the-otter-and-underground-homes.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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Otter Otter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Mole mole NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 fry fry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 8 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 iobj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:obj 9 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 10 det _ _ 10 ham ham NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 Mole mole NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 sets set VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 hedgehogs hedgehog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:acl 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 . . 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 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | the Otter | the Mole | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent mole=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **fry** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Mole *not said here* | some ham | Otter | | | | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Patient ham=Result | | 3 | **set** | present | the Mole | the hedgehogs | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient hedgehog=Result | | 4 | **do** | to-infinitive | the Mole *not said here* | Mole | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | 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:039-willows-ch4-part3-the-otter-and-underground-homes.lesson:5`. **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, 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. 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