---
title: The Mole's thoughts «ran a good deal on supper»; the Rat walks ahead… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 1: Dulc… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Mole's thoughts «ran a good deal on supper»; the Rat walks ahead «his shoulders humped, his eyes fixed on the straight grey road». Who acts: thoughts, Rat, shoulders, eyes. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 1: Dulce Domum (the village windows and the call of home
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/41-willows-ch5-part1-the-call-of-home/21/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, pa…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/41-willows-ch5-part1-the-call-of-home/) / 21

# The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 1: Dulce Domum (the village windows and the call of home), sentence 21

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The Mole's thoughts «ran a good deal on supper»; the Rat walks ahead «his shoulders humped, his eyes fixed on the straight grey road».

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** thoughts, Rat, shoulders, eyes, Mole · **What happens:** run, walk, hump, fix, think · **To what, where:** good deal, supper, straight grey road · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 1: Dulce Domum (the village windows and the call of home)» 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 (thoughts, Rat, shoulders, eyes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:041-willows-ch5-part1-the-call-of-home.lesson:21
# text = The Mole's thoughts «ran a good deal on supper»; the Rat walks ahead «his shoulders humped, his eyes fixed on the straight grey road».
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 041-willows-ch5-part1-the-call-of-home.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): R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Mole	mole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
6	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Rat	rat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	walks	walk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
17	ahead	ahead	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	humped	hump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	fixed	fix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	straight	straight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
30	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
31	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .note -->
No stored speech act for this sentence.

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** *in a quote* | past | the Mole's thoughts | a good deal |  | supper |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **walk** | present | the Rat |  |  |  |  | ahead *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **hump** *in a quote* | past | Mole's shoulders |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fix** *in a quote* | participle | Mole's eyes |  |  | the straight grey road |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **think** |  | the Mole |  |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:041-willows-ch5-part1-the-call-of-home.lesson:21`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, pa…, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/41-willows-ch5-part1-the-call-of-home/20/)
- next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, pa…, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/41-willows-ch5-part1-the-call-of-home/22/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/41-willows-ch5-part1-the-call-of-home/)

