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title: The Mole cannot bear to go to bed and do nothing, so the two friends… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 1: Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Mole cannot bear to go to bed and do nothing, so the two friends get the boat out and row upstream in the dark, through a night full of small rustles, gurgles and calls. Who acts: Mole, two friends. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 1: The Piper at the Gates of
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 1: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (Portly is missing), sentence 3

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The Mole cannot bear to go to bed and do nothing, so the two friends get the boat out and row upstream in the dark, through a night full of small rustles, gurgles and calls.

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**Who acts:** Mole, two friends · **What happens:** not bear, go, do, get out, row · **To what, where:** bed, nothing, boat, dark

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 1: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (Portly is missing)» 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, two friends), 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:3
# text = The Mole cannot bear to go to bed and do nothing, so the two friends get the boat out and row upstream in the dark, through a night full of small rustles, gurgles and calls.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Mole	mole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	11	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	out	out	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	row	row	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
24	upstream	upstream	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	dark	dark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	through	through	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:obl
32	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	rustles	rustle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	gurgles	gurgle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	calls	call	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **not** **bear** | can | the Mole |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **go** | to-infinitive | the Mole *not said here* |  |  | bed |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **do** | infinitive | the Mole *not said here* | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality |
| 4 | **get out** | infinitive | the two friends | the boat |  |  |  | out *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **row** | infinitive | the two friends *not said here* |  |  | the dark | night | upstream *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |

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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:049-willows-ch7-part1-portly-is-missing.lesson:3`.

**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, R7-rel-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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