--- title: The Mole has slipped off somewhere by himself without telling anyone… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 4: «Li… · tree and pragmatics description: The Mole has slipped off somewhere by himself without telling anyone; the Rat is busily making four little heaps of weapons — «Here's-a-sword-for-the-Rat, here's-a-sword-for-the-Mole...» — while Badger reads the paper and says that, once past the guns, four sticks will clear the hall in five minutes --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/68-willows-ch11-part4-the-secret-passage/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, p…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/68-willows-ch11-part4-the-secret-passage/) / 11 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 4: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (the secret passage, the birthday banquet and «learn 'em»), sentence 11 The Mole has slipped off somewhere by himself without telling anyone; the Rat is busily making four little heaps of weapons — «Here's-a-sword-for-the-Rat, here's-a-sword-for-the-Mole...» — while Badger reads the paper and says that, once past the guns, four sticks will clear the hall in five minutes. **Who acts:** Mole, Rat, Badger, four sticks · **What happens:** slip off, tell, make, read, say, clear · **To what, where:** anyone, four little heaps, paper, hall · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 4: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (the secret passage, the birthday banquet and «learn 'em»)» 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, Rat, Badger, four sticks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:068-willows-ch11-part4-the-secret-passage.lesson:11 # text = The Mole has slipped off somewhere by himself without telling anyone; the Rat is busily making four little heaps of weapons — «Here's-a-sword-for-the-Rat, here's-a-sword-for-the-Mole...» — while Badger reads the paper and says that, once past the guns, four sticks will clear the hall in five minutes. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 068-willows-ch11-part4-the-secret-passage.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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Mole mole NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 slipped slip VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 off off ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 somewhere somewhere ADV RB PronType=Ind 4 advmod _ _ 7 by by ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 4 obl _ _ 9 without without SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 10 telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 11 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 10 obj _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 busily busily ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 18 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 19 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 heaps heap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 weapons weapon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 23 — - PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 24 « « X GW _ 25 compound _ _ 25 Here's here' PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 26 - - PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ _ 29 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 30 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 35 punct _ _ 31 for for ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 32 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 31 punct _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 33 punct _ _ 35 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 here's here' NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 conj _ _ 38 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 41 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=41:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 39 punct _ _ 41 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 42 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 47 punct _ _ 43 for for ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 44 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 43 punct _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 46 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 45 punct _ _ 47 Mole mole NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 appos _ _ 48 ... ... PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 49 » » PUNCT '' _ 47 punct _ _ 50 — - PUNCT : _ 49 punct _ _ 51 while while SCONJ IN _ 53 mark _ _ 52 Badger Badger PROPN NNP Number=Sing 53 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=53:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 53 reads read VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 54 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 55 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 obj _ _ 56 and and CCONJ CC _ 57 cc _ _ 57 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 53 conj _ _ 58 that that SCONJ IN _ 68 mark _ _ 59 , , PUNCT , _ 63 punct _ _ 60 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 63 advmod _ _ 61 past past ADP IN _ 63 case _ _ 62 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 63 det _ _ 63 guns gun NOUN NNS Number=Plur 68 obl _ _ 64 , , PUNCT , _ 66 punct _ _ 65 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 66 nummod _ _ 66 sticks stick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 68 nsubj _ _ 67 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 68 aux _ _ 68 clear clear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 57 ccomp _ _ 69 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 70 det _ _ 70 hall hall NOUN NN Number=Sing 68 obj _ _ 71 in in ADP IN _ 73 case _ _ 72 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 73 nummod _ _ 73 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 68 obl _ _ 74 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **slip off** | present · perfect | the Mole | | | | | by Mole; somewhere *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | the Mole *not said here* | | anyone | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient | | 3 | **make** | present · progressive | the Rat | four little heaps of weapons | | | | « Here's *obl*; busily *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heap=Product | | 4 | **read** | present | Badger | the paper | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paper=Topic | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Badger *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **clear** | future | four sticks | the hall | | | minute | past the guns | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent hall=Source | 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:068-willows-ch11-part4-the-secret-passage.lesson:11`. **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. 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