--- title: Mole got the idea in the kitchen, where he found «that old washerwom… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 5: «Li… · tree and pragmatics description: Mole got the idea in the kitchen, where he found «that old washerwoman-dress that he came home in yesterday, hanging on a towel-horse before the fire» (a towel-horse = a wooden frame for drying cloths). Who acts: Mole, wooden frame. 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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, wooden frame), 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:14 # text = Mole got the idea in the kitchen, where he found «that old washerwoman-dress that he came home in yesterday, hanging on a towel-horse before the fire» (a towel-horse = a wooden frame for drying cloths). # 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 ×5, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Mole Mole PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 kitchen kitchen NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 11 advmod _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 12 « « PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 13 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 15 det _ _ 14 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 washerwoman washerwoman NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:obj 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ _ 17 dress dress NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:conj 18 that that SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 21 home home ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 yesterday yesterday NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 hanging hang VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 advcl _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 28 towel towel NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 29 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 28 punct _ _ 30 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 31 before before ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:det 33 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:compound 34 » » NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 35 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 39 punct _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 37 towel towel NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 38 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 37 punct _ _ 39 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 appos _ _ 40 = = SYM SYM _ 43 punct _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 wooden wooden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 frame frame NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 appos _ _ 44 for for SCONJ IN _ 45 mark _ _ 45 drying dry VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 43 acl _ _ 46 cloths cloth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 obj _ _ 47 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 39 punct _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | past | Mole | the idea | | the kitchen | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer idea=Stimulus | | 2 | **find** | past | Mole | washerwoman dress | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=Topic | | 3 | **come** *in a quote* | past | Mole | washerwoman dress *not said here* | | | yesterday | home *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dress=Theme | | 4 | **hang** *in a quote* | gerund | Mole *not said here* | the fire | | | before » | on a towel horse | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on horse=Location | | 5 | **dry** | gerund | a wooden frame *not said here* | cloths | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient cloth=Result | 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:069-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole.lesson:14`. **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 ×5, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, p…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/69-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole/13/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, p…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/69-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/69-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole/)