--- title: He told himself «not to begin imagining things, or there would be si… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 2: Th… · tree and pragmatics description: He told himself «not to begin imagining things, or there would be simply no end to it»; then «every hole, far and near, and there were hundreds of them, seemed to possess its face ... all hard-eyed and evil and sharp». Who acts: Rat, hundreds, hole. 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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 (Rat, hundreds, hole), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:034-willows-ch3-part2-the-terror-of-the-wild-wood.lesson:16 # text = He told himself «not to begin imagining things, or there would be simply no end to it»; then «every hole, far and near, and there were hundreds of them, seemed to possess its face ... all hard-eyed and evil and sharp». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 034-willows-ch3-part2-the-terror-of-the-wild-wood.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 2 obj _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 begin begin VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 ccomp _ _ 8 imagining imagine VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 xcomp _ _ 9 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 12 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 14 expl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:expl 13 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:aux 14 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 17 cop _ _ 15 simply simply ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 16 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 17 det _ _ 17 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 ccomp _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nmod _ _ 20 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 22 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 2 advmod _ _ 23 « « PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 24 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 25 det _ _ 25 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 25 advmod _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 near near ADV RB _ 27 conj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 33 expl _ _ 33 were be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 34 hundreds hundred NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nmod _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 possess possess VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 xcomp _ _ 41 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 43 ... ... PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 44 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 45 det _ _ 45 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 parataxis _ _ 46 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 45 punct _ _ 47 eyed eye VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 45 conj _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 49 evil evil ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=45:conj 50 and and CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 51 sharp sharp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 conj _ _ 52 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 53 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Rat | Rat | | | then | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **begin** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **imagine** *not said to happen, in a quote* | gerund | | things | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | infinitive | | no end | end | | | simply *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **be** *in a quote* | past | hundreds of things | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **seem** *in a quote* | past | every hole | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 7 | **possess** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | every hole *not said here* | end's face | | | | | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot face=Theme | | 8 | **eye** *in a quote* | participle | every hole *not said here* | | | | | | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | 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:034-willows-ch3-part2-the-terror-of-the-wild-wood.lesson:16`. **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, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter III,…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/34-willows-ch3-part2-the-terror-of-the-wild-wood/15/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter III,…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/34-willows-ch3-part2-the-terror-of-the-wild-wood/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/34-willows-ch3-part2-the-terror-of-the-wild-wood/)