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title: The Mole makes «each of them recite the names of his numerous brothe… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 4: Dulc… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Mole makes «each of them recite the names of his numerous brothers, who were too young … to go out a-carolling this year». Who acts: Mole, each, numerous brothers. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 4: Dulce Domum (the carol, a magic supper, and a home to come bac
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 4: Dulce Domum (the carol, a magic supper, and a home to come back to), sentence 24

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The Mole makes «each of them recite the names of his numerous brothers, who were too young … to go out a-carolling this year».

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**Who acts:** Mole, each, numerous brothers · **What happens:** make, recite, be, go out, carol, name · **To what, where:** names, a, numerous brothers · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 4: Dulce Domum (the carol, a magic supper, and a home to come back to)» 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, each, numerous brothers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:044-willows-ch5-part4-the-carol-and-a-happy-homecoming.lesson:24
# text = The Mole makes «each of them recite the names of his numerous brothers, who were too young … to go out a-carolling this year».
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 044-willows-ch5-part4-the-carol-and-a-happy-homecoming.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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Mole	mole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
5	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	_
8	recite	recite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	numerous	numerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	too	too	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	acl:relcl	_	_
20	…	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	obl	_	_
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	_
26	carolling	carol	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
27	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
28	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:obl:unmarked
29	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **make** | present | the Mole |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **recite** *in a quote* | infinitive | each | the names of Mole's numerous brothers |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | past | Mole's numerous brothers |  |  |  |  | young *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **go out** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Mole's numerous brothers *not said here* | a |  |  | year |  | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **carol** *speech: other* *in a quote* | gerund | Mole's numerous brothers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **name** *in a quote* |  |  | Mole's numerous brothers |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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:044-willows-ch5-part4-the-carol-and-a-happy-homecoming.lesson:24`.

**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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