--- title: He threw down his brush and said «Bother!» and «O blow!» and «Hang s… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 1: The… · tree and pragmatics description: He threw down his brush and said «Bother!» and «O blow!» and «Hang spring-cleaning!» — all old, mild ways of saying «I've had enough!» Who acts: Mole, «, old mild ways. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mole, «, old mild ways), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:025-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river.lesson:13 # text = He threw down his brush and said «Bother!» and «O blow!» and «Hang spring-cleaning!» — all old, mild ways of saying «I've had enough!» # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 025-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river.lesson # annotation = 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, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 threw throw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 down down ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 brush brush NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 8 « « PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 9 Bother bother VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:obj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 10 ! ! PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct 11 » » PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 « « PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 O o INTJ UH _ 15 discourse _ _ 15 blow blow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 16 ! ! PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ 17 » » PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 « « PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 20 Hang hang VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 21 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:obj 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 23 cleaning cleaning NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:conj 24 ! ! PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ _ 25 » » PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 26 — - PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 31 det _ _ 28 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 30 mild mild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 ways way NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 32 of of SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 33 saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 31 acl _ _ 34 « « PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 36 've have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 had have VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 33 ccomp _ _ 38 enough enough ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 39 ! ! PUNCT . _ 37 punct _ _ 40 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:.:_ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **throw down** | past | Mole | Mole's brush | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brush=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | Mole *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **bother** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **blow** *in a quote* | infinitive | « | all old mild ways | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **hang** *in a quote* | infinitive | « *not said here* | spring cleaning | | | | | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cleaning=Patient | | 6 | **say** *speech: express* | gerund | all old mild ways *not said here* | « | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **have** *in a quote* | present · perfect | all old mild ways *= way* | | | | | enough *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:025-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river.lesson:13`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×3, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, pa…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/25-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river/12/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, pa…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/25-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/25-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river/)