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title: When the Sergeant told the «good woman» to run away, Mole said it wo… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 5: «Li… · tree and pragmatics
description: When the Sergeant told the «good woman» to run away, Mole said it wouldn't be her running away soon. Who acts: Sergeant, Mole. 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 b
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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 4

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When the Sergeant told the «good woman» to run away, Mole said it wouldn't be her running away soon.

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**Who acts:** Sergeant, Mole · **What happens:** tell, run away, say, not be · **To what, where:** good woman · **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 (Sergeant, 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:4
# text = When the Sergeant told the «good woman» to run away, Mole said it wouldn't be her running away soon.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Sergeant	sergeant	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
4	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:det
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
7	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
12	away	away	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
14	Mole	Mole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
18	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	ccomp	_	_
22	away	away	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the Sergeant |  | the good woman |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent woman=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **run away** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Sergeant *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Mole |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **is** | would | Sergeant |  |  |  |  | away, run, soon *property* | tree rules |

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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:4`.

**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, 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/).

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