--- title: The Mole talked «casually» of the harvest, «the reddening apples», «… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 5: Way… · tree and pragmatics description: The Mole talked «casually» of the harvest, «the reddening apples», «the browning nuts», «jams and preserves and the distilling of cordials» (sweet fruit drinks), and then of midwinter, «and then he became simply lyrical» (spoke like a poem). Who acts: Mole. 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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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:060-willows-ch9-part5-the-call-and-the-cure.lesson:20 # text = The Mole talked «casually» of the harvest, «the reddening apples», «the browning nuts», «jams and preserves and the distilling of cordials» (sweet fruit drinks), and then of midwinter, «and then he became simply lyrical» (spoke like a poem). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 060-willows-ch9-part5-the-call-and-the-cure.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Mole mole NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 talked talk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 5 casually casually ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 6 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 harvest harvest NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 « « PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 reddening redden VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 amod _ _ 14 apples apple NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 15 » » PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 « « PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 browning brown VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 amod _ _ 20 nuts nut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:appos 21 » » PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 « « PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 24 jams jam NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=24:cc 26 preserves preserve NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 distilling distilling NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=26:conj 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 cordials cordial NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nmod _ _ 32 » » PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ _ 33 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 36 punct _ _ 34 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 35 fruit fruit NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 drinks drink NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 conj _ _ 37 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 36 punct _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 40 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 42 advmod _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 midwinter midwinter NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 43 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 44 « « PUNCT `` _ 48 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=42:punct 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 46 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 48 advmod _ _ 47 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 48 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 49 simply simply ADV RB _ 50 advmod _ _ 50 lyrical lyrical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 xcomp _ _ 51 » » PUNCT '' _ 48 punct _ _ 52 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 53 punct _ _ 53 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 50 parataxis _ _ 54 like like ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 55 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 56 det _ _ 56 poem poem NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 obl _ _ 57 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 53 punct _ _ 58 . . 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 | **talk** | past | the Mole | | | | | of the harvest the reddening apples and the browning nuts and jams and preserves and the distilling of cordials and sweet fruit drinks and midwinter; casually *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **redden** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **brown** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **become** *in a quote* | past | Mole | | | | then | lyrical *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | | | | | | like a poem | vn talk-37.5 «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:060-willows-ch9-part5-the-call-and-the-cure.lesson:20`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, p…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/60-willows-ch9-part5-the-call-and-the-cure/17/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, p…, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/60-willows-ch9-part5-the-call-and-the-cure/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/60-willows-ch9-part5-the-call-and-the-cure/)