--- title: Then the Mole despairs again: there's nothing to eat, not a crumb! — The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 3: Dulc… · tree and pragmatics description: Then the Mole despairs again: there's nothing to eat, not a crumb! Who acts: Mole, nothing. 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 with its dependency tree an --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/43-willows-ch5-part3-sardines-and-carol-singers/6/) [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/43-willows-ch5-part3-sardines-and-carol-singers/) / 6 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 3: Dulce Domum (a dusty home, a sardine supper, and voices outside), sentence 6 Then the Mole despairs again: there's nothing to eat, not a crumb! **Who acts:** Mole, nothing · **What happens:** despair, be, eat 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, nothing), 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:6 # text = Then the Mole despairs again: there's nothing to eat, 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): no change 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Mole mole PROPN NNP _ 4 nsubj _ _ 4 despairs despair VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 again again ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 7 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 8 expl _ _ 8 's be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 9 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 8 nsubj _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 acl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 crumb crumb NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 appos _ _ 16 ! ! PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **despair** | present | the Mole | | | | then; again | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **be** | present | nothing | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **eat** | to-infinitive | nothing *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. **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: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): no change. **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/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, pa…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/43-willows-ch5-part3-sardines-and-carol-singers/5/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, pa…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/43-willows-ch5-part3-sardines-and-carol-singers/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/43-willows-ch5-part3-sardines-and-carol-singers/)