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title: Looking back over the whole book: a Mole flung down his spring-clean… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 4: Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Looking back over the whole book: a Mole flung down his spring-cleaning and found the River, a best friend in the Rat, the shelter of Badger's home in the snowy Wild Wood, and the sweetness of his own little home again. Who acts: Mole, Badger. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapt
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 4: The Return of Ulysses (Toad's last little song, an altered Toad, and the end of the book), sentence 10

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Looking back over the whole book: a Mole flung down his spring-cleaning and found the River, a best friend in the Rat, the shelter of Badger's home in the snowy Wild Wood, and the sweetness of his own little home again.

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**Who acts:** Mole, Badger · **What happens:** look back, fling down, find, clean · **To what, where:** spring cleaning, River

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 4: The Return of Ulysses (Toad's last little song, an altered Toad, and the end of the book)» 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 (Mole, Badger), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:073-willows-ch12-part4-an-altered-toad.lesson:10
# text = Looking back over the whole book: a Mole flung down his spring-cleaning and found the River, a best friend in the Rat, the shelter of Badger's home in the snowy Wild Wood, and the sweetness of his own little home again.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 073-willows-ch12-part4-an-altered-toad.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	over	over	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Mole	mole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	flung	fling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
11	down	down	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
13	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	_
15	cleaning	cleaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	23	amod	_	_
23	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	shelter	shelter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	Badger	Badger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=33:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
32	's	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
36	snowy	snowy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	Wild	Wild	PROPN	NNP	_	38	flat	_	_
38	Wood	Wood	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	sweetness	sweetness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
44	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
45	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
46	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
48	again	again	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed polarity=pos

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look back** | gerund |  |  |  |  | again |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **fling down** | past | a Mole | Badger's spring cleaning |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **find** | past | a Mole *not said here* | the River and the sweetness of Badger's own little home |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Topic |
| 4 | **clean** |  | Badger |  |  |  |  |  | nom cleaning «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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:073-willows-ch12-part4-an-altered-toad.lesson:10`.

**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): 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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