--- title: Toad told Mole his adventures and «rather let himself go»: much of i… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 5: «Li… · tree and pragmatics description: Toad told Mole his adventures and «rather let himself go»: much of it was «what-might-have-happened-had-I-only-thought-of-it-in-time-instead-of-ten-minutes-afterwards». Who acts: Toad, Mole. 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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 (Toad, Mole), 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:34 # text = Toad told Mole his adventures and «rather let himself go»: much of it was «what-might-have-happened-had-I-only-thought-of-it-in-time-instead-of-ten-minutes-afterwards». # 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 Mole Mole PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 iobj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:iobj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 adventures adventure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 7 « « PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 8 rather rather ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 10 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 9 obj _ _ 11 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 » » PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct 13 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 14 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 ccomp _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:obl 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 18 « « SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 19 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 27 obl _ _ 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ _ 21 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:aux 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ _ 23 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 25 aux _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:aux 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ _ 25 happened happen VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 advcl _ _ 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ _ 27 had have VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 conj _ _ 28 - - PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 29 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 30 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 31 punct _ _ 31 only only ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 32 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 31 punct _ _ 33 thought think VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 conj _ _ 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 41 punct _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 36 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 35 punct _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 38 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 41 punct _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 39 punct _ _ 41 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl:unmarked _ _ 42 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 41 punct _ _ 43 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=ADP 49 case _ _ 44 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 43 punct _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 43 fixed _ _ 46 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 43 punct _ _ 47 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 49 nummod _ _ 48 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 47 punct _ _ 49 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 50 - - PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=52:punct 51 afterwards afterwards ADV RB _ 49 advmod _ _ 52 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 53 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Toad | Mole's adventures | Mole | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent mole=Recipient adventure=Topic | | 2 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | Toad *not said here* | Mole | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | Mole *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **happen** *in a quote* | might · perfect | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **have** *in a quote* | past · passive | Toad *not said here* | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP» | | 6 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | participle | Toad | | | | minute; time | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **adventure** | | Mole | | | | | | nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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:34`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, p…, 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/69-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole/33/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII,…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/70-willows-ch12-part1-the-secret-passage-at-night/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/69-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole/)