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title: Suddenly a smell reaches the Mole like an electric shock: it is HOME… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 1: Dulc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Suddenly a smell reaches the Mole like an electric shock: it is HOME — his own old home, the one he ran out of on that spring morning and has hardly thought of since. Who acts: smell, Mole. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 1: Dulce Domum (the village windows and the
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 1: Dulce Domum (the village windows and the call of home), sentence 6

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Suddenly a smell reaches the Mole like an electric shock: it is HOME — his own old home, the one he ran out of on that spring morning and has hardly thought of since.

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**Who acts:** smell, Mole · **What happens:** reach, be, run, think · **To what, where:** Mole, own old home, one

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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 (smell, Mole), 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:6
# text = Suddenly a smell reaches the Mole like an electric shock: it is HOME — his own old home, the one he ran out of on that spring morning and has hardly thought of since.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	reaches	reach	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Mole	mole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	electric	electric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	shock	shock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
14	HOME	home	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
15	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
17	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	out	out	ADP	IN	_	24	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	fixed	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
29	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	conj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	obl	_	_
36	since	since	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **reach** | present | a smell | the Mole |  |  |  | like a electric shock; suddenly *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent mole=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | smell | Mole's own old home |  |  |  | home *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **run** | past | Mole | the one *not said here* |  |  | morning |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Trajectory |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | present · perfect | Mole *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hardly, since *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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:6`.

**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. **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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