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# 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

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«Be careful, washerwoman!» annoys him and he begins «to lose his head» (to lose your head = to stop thinking sensibly).

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**Who acts:** you, Bravo · **What happens:** be, annoy, begin, lose, stop, think · **To what, where:** Bravo, head · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:064-willows-ch10-part4-into-the-horse-pond.lesson:23
# text = «Be careful, washerwoman!» annoys him and he begins «to lose his head» (to lose your head = to stop thinking sensibly).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 064-willows-ch10-part4-into-the-horse-pond.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	cop	_	_
3	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	washerwoman	washerwoman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	vocative	_	_
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
8	annoys	annoy	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	begins	begin	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj
13	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
22	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	26	punct	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
27	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	xcomp	_	_
28	sensibly	sensibly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	28	punct	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | 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 |

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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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**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: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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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