The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 3: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (the gift of forgetfulness), sentence 19

The Rat hears the reeds sing: «Lest the awe should dwell — And turn your frolic to fret — You shall look on my power at the helping hour — But then you shall forget!» (frolic = play; fret = worry).

Who acts: Rat, reeds, awe, You, your · What happens: hear, sing, dwell, turn, fret, look · To what, where: frolic · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 3: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (the gift of forgetfulness)» 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, reeds, awe, You), 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	3 hears	nsubj
3	hears	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 reeds	det
5	reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sing	nsubj
6	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hears	ccomp
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 hears	punct
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 Lest	punct
9	Lest	lest	SCONJ	_	13 dwell	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 awe	det
11	awe	awe	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dwell	nsubj
12	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 dwell	aux
13	dwell	dwell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hears	parataxis
14	—	-	PUNCT	_	16 turn	punct
15	And	and	CCONJ	_	16 turn	cc
16	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 dwell	conj
17	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 frolic	nmod:poss
18	frolic	frolic	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 turn	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 fret	mark
20	fret	fret	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 turn	xcomp
21	—	-	PUNCT	_	24 look	punct
22	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 look	nsubj
23	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 look	aux
24	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 dwell	parataxis
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 power	case
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 power	nmod:poss
27	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 look	obl
28	at	at	ADP	_	31 hour	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 hour	det
30	helping	helping	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 hour	compound
31	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 look	obl
32	—	-	PUNCT	_	37 forget	punct
33	But	but	CCONJ	_	37 forget	cc
34	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 forget	advmod
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 forget	nsubj
36	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 forget	aux
37	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hears	conj
38	!	!	PUNCT	_	37 forget	punct
39	»	»	PUNCT	_	37 forget	punct
40	(	(	PUNCT	_	43 play	punct
41	frolic	frolic	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 =	nsubj
42	=	=	SYM	Number=Plur	43 play	punct
43	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 forget	conj
44	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 fret	punct
45	fret	fret	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 forget	parataxis
46	=	=	SYM	_	45 fret	punct
47	worry	worry	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 fret	appos
48	)	)	PUNCT	_	45 fret	punct
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hears	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hear	present	the Rat				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	sing speech: express	infinitive	the reeds				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	dwell in a quote	should	the awe				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	turn in a quote	infinitive	the awe not said here	your frolic			tree rules
5	fret in a quote	to-infinitive	the awe not said here				vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	look in a quote	shall	You		hour	on my power	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on power=Theme
7	forget in a quote	shall	you		then		tree rules
8	play	present	you not said here				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	frolic in a quote		your				nom frolic «act intransitive»: 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.

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:051-willows-ch7-part3-the-gift-of-forgetfulness.lesson:19.

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 ×1, 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.

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