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title: Toad sobs «Let me go out and find them, out into the cold, dark nigh… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 3: «Li… · tree and pragmatics
description: Toad sobs «Let me go out and find them, out into the cold, dark night... Who acts: Badger. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 3: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (loyal friends, cold pie and «Be quiet at once!»)» of the books course of Mova's primary school with
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 3: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (loyal friends, cold pie and «Be quiet at once!»), sentence 22

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Toad sobs «Let me go out and find them, out into the cold, dark night...

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**Who acts:** Badger · **What happens:** let, go out, find · **To what, where:** Badger, sobs

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 3: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (loyal friends, cold pie and «Be quiet at once!»)» 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 (Badger), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:067-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home.lesson:22
# text = Toad sobs «Let me go out and find them, out into the cold, dark night...
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 067-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home.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, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
2	sobs	sob	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBZ:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
4	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	out	out	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	out	out	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	...	...	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | Badger |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go out** *in a quote* | infinitive | Badger *not said here* |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **find** *in a quote* | infinitive | Badger *not said here* | sobs *= sob* |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |

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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:067-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home.lesson:22`.

**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, 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/).

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