--- title: Don't keep my men idling and talking on their posts.» Mole: «it won'… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 5: «Li… · tree and pragmatics description: Don't keep my men idling and talking on their posts.» Mole: «it won't be me that'll be running away, in a very short time from now!» Who acts: you, men, frame. 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 b --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/69-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole/20/) [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/69-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole/) / 20 # 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 20 Don't keep my men idling and talking on their posts.» Mole: «it won't be me that'll be running away, in a very short time from now!» **Who acts:** you, men, frame · **What happens:** not keep, idle, talk, not be, run away · **To what, where:** men, posts, me 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 (you, men, 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:20 # text = Don't keep my men idling and talking on their posts.» Mole: «it won't be me that'll be running away, in a very short time from now!» # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 2 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 3 advmod _ _ 3 keep keep VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 idling idle VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:acl 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=6:cc 8 talking talk VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 conj _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 posts post NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 12 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 13 » » PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:::_ 14 Mole mole NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 15 : : PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 16 « « PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 18 wo will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 19 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 20 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 21 cop _ _ 21 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 parataxis _ _ 22 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 23 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 25 aux _ _ 25 running run VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 acl:relcl _ _ 26 away away ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 30 very very ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 33 from from ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 obl _ _ 35 ! ! PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 36 » » PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:.:_ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: warn - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **keep** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | my men | | | time | Mole *obl* | tree rules | | 2 | **idle** | gerund | my men *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **talk** | gerund | my men *not said here* | | | men's posts | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **is a** | future | frame | me | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **run away** | future · progressive | | | | | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:20`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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