The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 2: The Wild Wood (the faces, the whistling, the pattering — and the Rat sets out), sentence 1

Then the faces begin: a little evil wedge-shaped face in a hole, gone when the Mole turns; then another; then it seems every hole has a hard-eyed face glaring at him.

Who acts: faces, Mole, hole, eyed face · What happens: begin, go, turn, seem, have, glare · To what, where: Mole, eyed face

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 2: The Wild Wood (the faces, the whistling, the pattering — and the Rat sets out)» 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 (faces, Mole, hole, eyed face), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 begin	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 faces	det
3	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 begin	nsubj
4	begin	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 face	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 face	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 face	amod
8	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 face	amod
9	wedge	wedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shaped	obl:unmarked
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 wedge	punct
11	shaped	shaped	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 face	amod
12	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 begin	parataxis
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 hole	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 hole	det
15	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 face	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 gone	punct
17	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 face	parataxis
18	when	when	SCONJ	_	21 turns	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Mole	det
20	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 turns	nsubj
21	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 gone	advcl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 another	punct
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 another	advmod
24	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	12 face	conj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 seems	punct
26	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 seems	advmod
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 seems	expl
28	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 begin	parataxis
29	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	30 hole	det
30	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 has	nsubj
31	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 seems	ccomp
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 face	det
33	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 eyed	amod
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 hard	punct
35	eyed	eye	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 face	amod
36	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 has	obj
37	glaring	glare	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	36 face	acl
38	at	at	ADP	_	39 him	case
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 glaring	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 begin	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	present	the faces		then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	go	participle					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	turn	present	the Mole				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	seem	present		Mole	then		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	have	present	every hole	a eyed face			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient
6	glare	gerund	a eyed face not said here			at hole	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at he=Location

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:034-willows-ch3-part2-the-terror-of-the-wild-wood.lesson:1.

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, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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