--- title: The Mole says: «I simply can't go and turn in, and go to sleep, and… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 1: Th… · tree and pragmatics description: The Mole says: «I simply can't go and turn in, and go to sleep, and do nothing»; the Rat answers «Just what I was thinking myself»: it's no sort of night for bed anyhow, daybreak is not far off, and they may pick up news of Portly from early risers. Who acts: Mole, Rat, sleep, daybreak. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mole, Rat, sleep, daybreak), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:049-willows-ch7-part1-portly-is-missing.lesson:16 # text = The Mole says: «I simply can't go and turn in, and go to sleep, and do nothing»; the Rat answers «Just what I was thinking myself»: it's no sort of night for bed anyhow, daybreak is not far off, and they may pick up news of Portly from early risers. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 049-willows-ch7-part1-portly-is-missing.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 ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Mole mole NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 5 « « PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 6 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 7 simply simply ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 8 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 13 in in ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 22 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 21 obj _ _ 23 » » PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 answers answer VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 28 « « PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ _ 29 Just just ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 33 obj _ _ 31 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 thinking think VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 ccomp _ _ 34 myself myself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 33 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:obj 35 » » PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ _ 36 : : PUNCT : _ 40 punct _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 38 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 39 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 40 det _ _ 40 sort sort NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ _ 43 for for ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ _ 45 anyhow anyhow ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 46 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 47 daybreak daybreak NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 nsubj _ _ 48 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 50 cop _ _ 49 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 50 advmod _ _ 50 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 40 conj _ _ 51 off off ADV RB _ 50 advmod _ _ 52 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 53 and and CCONJ CC _ 56 cc _ _ 54 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 56 nsubj _ _ 55 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 56 aux _ _ 56 pick pick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 50 conj _ _ 57 up up ADP RP _ 56 compound:prt _ _ 58 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 obj _ _ 59 of of ADP IN _ 60 case _ _ 60 Portly portly PROPN NNP Number=Sing 58 nmod _ _ 61 from from ADP IN _ 63 case _ _ 62 early early ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 63 amod _ _ 63 risers riser NOUN NNS Number=Plur 56 obl _ _ 64 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Mole | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **go** *in a quote* | can | the Mole *= mole* | | | | | simply *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **turn in** *in a quote* | infinitive | the Mole *= mole* *not said here* | | | | | | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | the Mole *= mole* *not said here* | | | sleep | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **do** *in a quote* | present | | nothing | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | | 6 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present | the Rat | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | past · progressive | the Rat *= rat* | the Rat *= rat* | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | | 8 | **is a** | present | sleep | no sort | | | night | for bed; anyhow *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **not** **is** | present | daybreak | | | | | far, off *property* | tree rules | | 10 | **pick up** | may | Otters *= otter* | news of Portly | | early risers | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Topic | 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:049-willows-ch7-part1-portly-is-missing.lesson:16`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII,…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/49-willows-ch7-part1-portly-is-missing/15/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII,…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/49-willows-ch7-part1-portly-is-missing/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/49-willows-ch7-part1-portly-is-missing/)