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title: A Mole!», Rat with his belt bulging with weapons, and Toad puffed up… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 2: Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: A Mole!», Rat with his belt bulging with weapons, and Toad puffed up to twice his size, whooping «I'll pleasure 'em!» and going straight for the Chief Weasel. Who acts: belt, Toad, Mole, I. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 2: The Return of Ulysses (four Heroes, fi
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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 3

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A Mole!», Rat with his belt bulging with weapons, and Toad puffed up to twice his size, whooping «I'll pleasure 'em!» and going straight for the Chief Weasel.

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**Who acts:** belt, Toad, Mole, I · **What happens:** bulge, puff up, whoop, pleasure, go · **To what, where:** size, 'em · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (belt, Toad, Mole, I), 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:3
# text = A Mole!», Rat with his belt bulging with weapons, and Toad puffed up to twice his size, whooping «I'll pleasure 'em!» and going straight for the Chief Weasel.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Mole	mole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	belt	belt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
10	bulging	bulge	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	acl	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	weapons	weapon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
16	puffed	puff	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	21	advmod	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	whooping	whoop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
24	«	«	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	pleasure	pleasure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:xcomp
28	'em	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
30	»	»	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
33	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	Chief	Chief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	Weasel	weasel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **bulge** *in a quote* | gerund | Mole's belt *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with weapons | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with weapon=Theme |
| 2 | **puff up** *in a quote* | past | Toad |  |  | Mole's size |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to size=Location |
| 3 | **whoop** *speech: other* *in a quote* | gerund | a Mole with Mole's belt *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **pleasure** | future | I | 'em *= they* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **go** *in a quote* | gerund | a Mole with Mole's belt |  |  |  |  | for the Chief Weasel; straight *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for weasel=Beneficiary |

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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:3`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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/).

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