The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 4: The Further Adventures of Toad (the horse-pond, the chase and a face in the bank), sentence 23
«Be careful, washerwoman!» annoys him and he begins «to lose his head» (to lose your head = to stop thinking sensibly).
Who acts: you, Bravo · What happens: be, annoy, begin, lose, stop, think · To what, where: Bravo, head · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 4: The Further Adventures of Toad (the horse-pond, the chase and a face in the bank)» 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 (you, Bravo), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 careful | punct |
| 2 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 3 careful | cop |
| 3 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 washerwoman | punct |
| 5 | washerwoman | washerwoman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 careful | vocative |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 careful | punct |
| 7 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 careful | punct |
| 8 | annoys | annoy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 careful | conj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 annoys | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 begins | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 begins | nsubj |
| 12 | begins | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 annoys | conj |
| 13 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 15 lose | punct |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 lose | mark |
| 15 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 begins | xcomp |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 head | nmod:poss |
| 17 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lose | obj |
| 18 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 15 lose | punct |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 21 lose | punct |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 lose | mark |
| 21 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 lose | conj |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 head | nmod:poss |
| 23 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lose | obj |
| 24 | = | = | SYM | _ | 26 stop | punct |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 stop | mark |
| 26 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 lose | conj |
| 27 | thinking | think | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 stop | xcomp |
| 28 | sensibly | sensibly | ADV | _ | 27 thinking | advmod |
| 29 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 28 sensibly | punct |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 careful | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | imperative | you not said here | washerwoman vocative; careful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | annoy | present | you not said here | Bravo | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | begin | present | Bravo | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | lose in a quote | to-infinitive | Bravo not said here | Bravo's head | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | lose | to-infinitive | Bravo not said here | your head | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | stop | to-infinitive | Bravo not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | think speech: other | gerund | Bravo not said here | sensibly property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:064-willows-ch10-part4-into-the-horse-pond.lesson:23.
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. 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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