The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 4: The Wild Wood (the door-scraper, the door-mat, and a green door), sentence 8

The Rat loses his temper: stop talking and dig, especially on the sides of the mounds — it's their last chance of a warm dry bed!

Who acts: Rat, temper · What happens: lose, stop, talk, dig, be, temper · To what, where: temper, sides, last chance

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, temper), 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	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 loses	nsubj
3	loses	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 temper	nmod:poss
5	temper	temper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 loses	obj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 stop	punct
7	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 loses	parataxis
8	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 stop	xcomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 dig	cc
10	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 talking	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sides	punct
12	especially	especially	ADV	_	15 sides	advmod
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 sides	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sides	det
15	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 dig	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 mounds	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 mounds	det
18	mounds	mound	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 sides	nmod
19	—	-	PUNCT	_	24 chance	punct
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 chance	nsubj
21	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 chance	cop
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 chance	nmod:poss
23	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 chance	amod
24	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stop	parataxis
25	of	of	ADP	_	29 bed	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 bed	det
27	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 bed	amod
28	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 bed	amod
29	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 chance	nmod
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 loses	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lose	present	the Rat	Rat's temper			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temper=Eventuality
2	stop	infinitive					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	talk	gerund					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	dig	infinitive			the sides of the mounds		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location
5	is a	present	temper	mounds's last chance		of a warm dry bed	tree rules
6	temper		Rat				nom temper «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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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. 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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