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title: The Mole sees «how plain and simple—how narrow, even—it all was; but… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 4: Dulc… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Mole sees «how plain and simple—how narrow, even—it all was; but clearly, too, how much it all meant to him». Who acts: Mole, swathe. 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 
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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 34

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The Mole sees «how plain and simple—how narrow, even—it all was; but clearly, too, how much it all meant to him».

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**Who acts:** Mole, swathe · **What happens:** see, be, mean · **To what, where:** much, Mole · **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, swathe), 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:34
# text = The Mole sees «how plain and simple—how narrow, even—it all was; but clearly, too, how much it all meant to him».
# 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Mole	mole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sees	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
5	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
6	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
9	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
11	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	even	even	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	—	—	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:advmod
17	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
20	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	too	too	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
25	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	obj	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
28	meant	mean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	_
31	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- 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 |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **be** *in a quote* | past | swathe |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **mean** *in a quote* | past | swathe | much | Mole |  |  | clearly *property* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot much=Theme to he=Attribute |

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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:34`.

**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 ×2, 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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