The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 4: The Wild Wood (the door-scraper, the door-mat, and a green door), sentence 29

The Rat had asked: «Do—you—mean—to—say ... that this door-mat doesn't TELL you anything?» Then, «really angry»: «Now look here, you—you thick-headed beast ... this must stop.

Who acts: Rat, you, door mat, this · What happens: ask, mean, say, not tell, look, stop · To what, where: anything, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 4: The Wild Wood (the door-scraper, the door-mat, and a green door)» 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, you, door mat, this), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Rat	det
2	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 asked	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 asked	aux
4	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 asked	punct
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 asked	punct
7	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 mean	aux
8	—	-	PUNCT	_	11 mean	punct
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 mean	nsubj
10	—	-	PUNCT	_	11 mean	punct
11	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 asked	ccomp
12	—	-	PUNCT	_	15 say	goeswith
13	to	to	PART	_	15 say	mark
14	—	-	PUNCT	_	15 say	goeswith
15	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 mean	xcomp
16	...	...	PUNCT	_	24 TELL	punct
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 TELL	mark
18	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 mat	det
19	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 mat	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 door	punct
21	mat	mat	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 TELL	nsubj
22	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 TELL	aux
23	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 TELL	advmod
24	TELL	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 say	ccomp
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 TELL	iobj
26	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	24 TELL	obj
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	26 anything	punct
28	»	»	PUNCT	_	24 TELL	punct
29	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 angry	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 angry	punct
31	«	«	PUNCT	_	33 angry	punct
32	really	really	ADV	_	33 angry	advmod
33	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 asked	parataxis
34	»	»	PUNCT	_	33 angry	punct
35	:	:	PUNCT	_	33 angry	punct
36	«	«	PUNCT	_	33 angry	punct
37	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 look	advmod
38	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 angry	conj
39	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 look	advmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 —	punct
41	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 look	vocative
42	—	—	PUNCT	_	41 you	punct
43	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	41 you	appos
44	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 beast	amod
45	-	-	PUNCT	_	44 thick	punct
46	headed	head	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 beast	amod
47	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 you	appos
48	...	...	PUNCT	_	51 stop	punct
49	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	51 stop	nsubj
50	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 stop	aux
51	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 say	conj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 asked	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past · perfect	the Rat						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	mean in a quote	present · do-support	you						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	say speech: assert not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not tell speech: assert in a quote	present · do-support	this door mat	anything	you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient anything=Topic
5	look in a quote	infinitive	the Rat not said here			here	now	you vocative	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	stop in a quote	must	this						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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:036-willows-ch3-part4-the-door-scraper.lesson:29.

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 ×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.

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