The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 2: The Wild Wood (the faces, the whistling, the pattering — and the Rat sets out), sentence 16

He told himself «not to begin imagining things, or there would be simply no end to it»; then «every hole, far and near, and there were hundreds of them, seemed to possess its face ... all hard-eyed and evil and sharp».

Who acts: Rat, hundreds, hole · What happens: tell, not begin, imagine, be, seem, possess · To what, where: Rat, things, end, face · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 2: The Wild Wood (the faces, the whistling, the pattering — and the Rat sets out)» 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 (Rat, hundreds, hole), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 told	obj
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 begin	punct
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 begin	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 begin	mark
7	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 told	ccomp
8	imagining	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 begin	xcomp
9	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 imagining	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 end	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 end	cc
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 be	expl
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 be	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 end	cop
15	simply	simply	ADV	_	17 end	advmod
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 end	det
17	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	ccomp
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 end	nmod
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct
22	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 told	advmod
23	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct
24	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	25 hole	det
25	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 seemed	nsubj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 far	punct
27	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 hole	advmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 near	cc
29	near	near	ADV	_	27 far	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 were	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 were	cc
32	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	33 were	expl
33	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	parataxis
34	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 were	nsubj
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 them	case
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 hundreds	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 seemed	punct
38	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	ccomp
39	to	to	PART	_	40 possess	mark
40	possess	possess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 seemed	xcomp
41	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 face	nmod:poss
42	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 possess	obj
43	...	...	PUNCT	_	38 seemed	punct
44	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	45 hard	det
45	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 seemed	parataxis
46	-	-	PUNCT	_	45 hard	punct
47	eyed	eye	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 hard	conj
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 evil	cc
49	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 eyed	conj
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 sharp	cc
51	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 hard	conj
52	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Rat	Rat			then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not begin not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive							vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	imagine not said to happen, in a quote	gerund		things					vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme
4	is a in a quote	infinitive		no end	end			simply property	tree rules
5	be in a quote	past	hundreds of things			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	seem in a quote	past	every hole						vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
7	possess in a quote	to-infinitive	every hole not said here	end's face					vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot face=Theme
8	eye in a quote	participle	every hole not said here						vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer

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, 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:034-willows-ch3-part2-the-terror-of-the-wild-wood.lesson:16.

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, R7-rel-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.

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