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title: Well might the ferrets rush wildly for the fireplace and get hopeles… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 2: Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Well might the ferrets rush wildly for the fireplace and get hopelessly jammed in the chimney!» Who acts: ferrets. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 2: The Return of Ulysses (four Heroes, five minutes and clean sheets)» of the books course of Mova's primary school 
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 2: The Return of Ulysses (four Heroes, five minutes and clean sheets), sentence 15

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Well might the ferrets rush wildly for the fireplace and get hopelessly jammed in the chimney!»

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**Who acts:** ferrets · **What happens:** rush, jam · **To what, where:** chimney

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 2: The Return of Ulysses (four Heroes, five minutes and clean sheets)» 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 (ferrets), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:071-willows-ch12-part2-the-battle-of-toad-hall.lesson:15
# text = Well might the ferrets rush wildly for the fireplace and get hopelessly jammed in the chimney!»
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 071-willows-ch12-part2-the-battle-of-toad-hall.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): R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	ferrets	ferret	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	rush	rush	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
6	wildly	wildly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	fireplace	fireplace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	get	get	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
12	hopelessly	hopelessly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	jammed	jam	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	chimney	chimney	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
18	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:punct|HaikuPos=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 | **rush** | might | the ferrets |  |  |  |  | for the fireplace; wildly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **jam** | infinitive · passive | the ferrets *not said here* |  |  | the chimney |  | hopelessly *property* | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: in chimney=Destination |

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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:071-willows-ch12-part2-the-battle-of-toad-hall.lesson:15`.

**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): 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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