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title: After lunch Badger takes forty winks, and Mole kindly lets Toad tell… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 5: «Li… · tree and pragmatics
description: After lunch Badger takes forty winks, and Mole kindly lets Toad tell all his adventures — with plenty of things that might have happened, if only he'd thought of them in time. Who acts: Badger, Mole, Toad, things. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 5: «Like Summer Te
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 5: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (Mole the washerwoman and the badgers that never were), sentence 13

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After lunch Badger takes forty winks, and Mole kindly lets Toad tell all his adventures — with plenty of things that might have happened, if only he'd thought of them in time.

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**Who acts:** Badger, Mole, Toad, things · **What happens:** take, let, tell, happen, think, adventure · **To what, where:** forty winks, Toad, adventures · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 5: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (Mole the washerwoman and the badgers that never were)» 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, Mole, Toad, things), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:069-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole.lesson:13
# text = After lunch Badger takes forty winks, and Mole kindly lets Toad tell all his adventures — with plenty of things that might have happened, if only he'd thought of them in time.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 069-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×4
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	lunch	lunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	Badger	Badger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
4	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
6	winks	wink	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	Mole	Mole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
10	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	lets	let	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
13	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	16	det:predet	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	adventures	adventure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
17	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
23	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux	_	_
25	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:acl:relcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
28	only	only	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	'd	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=31:aux|HaikuPos=AUX:MD:VerbForm=Fin
31	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	conj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **take** | present | Badger | forty winks |  |  | after lunch |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wink=Theme |
| 2 | **let** | present | Mole | Toad |  |  |  | kindly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Toad *not said here* | Mole's adventures |  |  |  | with plenty of things | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adventure=Recipient |
| 4 | **happen** | might · perfect | things |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | Mole |  |  |  | time | of things *= thing* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **adventure** |  | Mole |  |  |  |  |  | nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=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:069-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole.lesson:13`.

**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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×4. **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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