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title: Inside, the Mole sees dust everywhere, a cold, small, shabby, long-f… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 3: Dulc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Inside, the Mole sees dust everywhere, a cold, small, shabby, long-forgotten house — and flops onto a hall-chair in despair. Who acts: Mole. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 3: Dulce Domum (a dusty home, a sardine supper, and voices outside)» of the books course of 
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 3: Dulce Domum (a dusty home, a sardine supper, and voices outside), sentence 0

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Inside, the Mole sees dust everywhere, a cold, small, shabby, long-forgotten house — and flops onto a hall-chair in despair.

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**Who acts:** Mole · **What happens:** see, forget, flop · **To what, where:** dust, hall chair

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 3: Dulce Domum (a dusty home, a sardine supper, and voices outside)» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:043-willows-ch5-part3-sardines-and-carol-singers.lesson:0
# text = Inside, the Mole sees dust everywhere, a cold, small, shabby, long-forgotten house — and flops onto a hall-chair in despair.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 043-willows-ch5-part3-sardines-and-carol-singers.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
1	Inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:det
4	Mole	Mole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
5	sees	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
10	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	shabby	shabby	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	_
18	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
20	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	flops	flop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
23	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	_
27	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	despair	despair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | the Mole | dust |  |  |  | everywhere, inside *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dust=Stimulus |
| 2 | **forget** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **flop** | present | the Mole *not said here* |  |  | a hall chair in despair |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «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:043-willows-ch5-part3-sardines-and-carol-singers.lesson:0`.

**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. **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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