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title: Mole «promptly had another fit of the blues» (the blues = feeling ve… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 3: Dulc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mole «promptly had another fit of the blues» (the blues = feeling very sad): «I've nothing to give you—nothing—not a crumb!» Who acts: Mole, field mice. 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 book
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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 23

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Mole «promptly had another fit of the blues» (the blues = feeling very sad): «I've nothing to give you—nothing—not a crumb!»

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**Who acts:** Mole, field mice · **What happens:** have, feel, give · **To what, where:** fit, nothing, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, field mice), 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:23
# text = Mole «promptly had another fit of the blues» (the blues = feeling very sad): «I've nothing to give you—nothing—not a crumb!»
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Mole	mole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
3	promptly	promptly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	fit	fit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	blues	blue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	»	»	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	blues	blue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
14	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
16	very	very	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
18	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
20	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	've	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:parataxis|HaikuPos=AUX:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
23	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	22	obj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	iobj	_	_
27	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
28	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	22	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:conj
29	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	crumb	crumb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:appos
33	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	_
34	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:punct|HaikuPos=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 | **have** *in a quote* | past | Mole | another fit of the blues and the blues |  |  |  | promptly *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fit=Patient |
| 2 | **feel** | gerund | Mole *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sad *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | present | the field mice and out's carol *= mouse* | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
| 4 | **give** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the field mice and out's carol *= mouse* *not said here* | nothing *not said here* | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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**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:23`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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