--- title: The «tactful Mole» brought a pencil and paper: «It's quite a long ti… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 5: Way… · tree and pragmatics description: The «tactful Mole» brought a pencil and paper: «It's quite a long time since you did any poetry»; later the Rat was «scribbling and sucking the top of his pencil», and «it was joy to the Mole to know that the cure had at least begun». Who acts: tactful Mole, paper, you, Rat. 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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 (tactful Mole, paper, you, Rat), 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:21 # text = The «tactful Mole» brought a pencil and paper: «It's quite a long time since you did any poetry»; later the Rat was «scribbling and sucking the top of his pencil», and «it was joy to the Mole to know that the cure had at least begun». # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×6, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 « « PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 3 tactful tactful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 Mole mole NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 6 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 pencil pencil NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 12 « « PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct 13 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 14 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 15 quite quite DET PDT PronType=Ind 18 det:predet _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ _ 19 since since SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 20 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:advcl|HaikuPos=AUX:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 23 det _ _ 23 poetry poetry NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 » » PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 31 advmod _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 29 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 « « PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 31 scribbling scribble VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 conj _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 sucking suck VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 conj _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 pencil pencil NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 39 » » PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 42 « « PUNCT `` _ 45 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=41:punct 43 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 44 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 45 joy joy NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 46 to to ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 Mole mole NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod _ _ 49 to to PART TO _ 50 mark _ _ 50 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 48 acl _ _ 51 that that SCONJ IN _ 57 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=54:mark 52 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 53 cure cure NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 nsubj _ _ 54 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 57 aux _ _ 55 at at ADV RB _ 56 fixed _ _ 56 least least ADV RBS Degree=Sup 57 advmod _ _ 57 begun begin VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 50 ccomp _ _ 58 » » PUNCT '' _ 45 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=57:punct 59 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bring** | past | the tactful Mole | a pencil and paper | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | paper | quite long time | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **do** *in a quote* | past | you | any poetry | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poetry=Eventuality | | 4 | **scribble** *in a quote* | past · progressive | the Rat | | | | | late *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **suck** *in a quote* | gerund | the Rat *not said here* | the top of Mole's pencil | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent top=Source | | 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | paper | joy | | | | to the Mole | tree rules | | 7 | **know** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | paper *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 8 | **begin** *in a quote* | past · perfect | the cure | | | | | least *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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:21`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×6, R8-pos-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. 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