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title: The Mole: «It's too late, and too dark, and the place is too far off… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 2: Dulc… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Mole: «It's too late, and too dark, and the place is too far off, and the snow's coming!» The Rat: «Hang River Bank, and supper too! … I'm going to find this place now, if I stay out all night.» Who acts: nose, place, snow, hiccups. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, p
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 2: Dulce Domum (the Mole's sobs, the Rat turns back, and Mole End), sentence 26

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The Mole: «It's too late, and too dark, and the place is too far off, and the snow's coming!» The Rat: «Hang River Bank, and supper too! … I'm going to find this place now, if I stay out all night.»

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**Who acts:** nose, place, snow, hiccups · **What happens:** be, come, hang, go, find, stay out · **To what, where:** River Bank, place

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 2: Dulce Domum (the Mole's sobs, the Rat turns back, and Mole End)» 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 (nose, place, snow, hiccups), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:042-willows-ch5-part2-mole-end.lesson:26
# text = The Mole: «It's too late, and too dark, and the place is too far off, and the snow's coming!» The Rat: «Hang River Bank, and supper too! … I'm going to find this place now, if I stay out all night.»
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 042-willows-ch5-part2-mole-end.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, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Mole	mole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
5	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	too	too	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	too	too	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	too	too	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
20	off	off	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
27	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
28	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct
29	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Rat	rat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:nmod
31	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
32	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	_
33	Hang	hang	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
34	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	Bank	Bank	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
39	too	too	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
40	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
41	…	…	PUNCT	:	_	44	punct	_	_
42	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
43	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
46	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	xcomp	_	_
47	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	48	det	_	_
48	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	_
49	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	46	advmod	_	_
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
51	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
52	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
53	stay	stay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
54	out	out	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	_
55	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	56	det	_	_
56	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl:unmarked	_	_
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
58	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:NFP:_
```

## 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 | **is** *in a quote* | present | nose |  |  |  |  | late *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** *in a quote* |  | nose *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the place |  |  |  |  | far, off *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** *in a quote* | present · progressive | the snow |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **hang** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | River Bank and supper |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bank=Patient |
| 6 | **go** *in a quote* | present · progressive | the hiccups *= hiccup* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **find** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the hiccups *= hiccup* *not said here* | this place |  |  | now |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic |
| 8 | **stay out** *in a quote* | present | the hiccups *= hiccup* |  |  |  | night | out *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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