The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 3: The Wild Wood (the Rat finds the Mole, and the snow comes), sentence 1

Wicked little faces pop out of holes — and vanish at the sight of him, his pistols and his big ugly stick; the whistling and pattering stop.

Who acts: Wicked little faces, whistling · What happens: pop out, vanish, stop, sight · To what, where: holes, sight, Rat

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 3: The Wild Wood (the Rat finds the Mole, and the snow comes)» 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 (Wicked little faces, whistling), 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	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 faces	amod
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 faces	amod
3	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pop	nsubj
4	pop	pop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	7 holes	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 holes	case
7	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pop	obl
8	—	-	PUNCT	_	10 vanish	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 vanish	cc
10	vanish	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 pop	conj
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 sight	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sight	det
13	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 vanish	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sight	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 pistols	punct
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 pistols	nmod:poss
18	pistols	pistol	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 him	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 stick	cc
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 stick	nmod:poss
21	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 stick	amod
22	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 stick	amod
23	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pistols	conj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 pop	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 stop	det
26	whistling	whistling	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 stop	nsubj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 pattering	cc
28	pattering	patter	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 whistling	conj
29	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 pop	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 pop	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	pop out	present	Wicked little faces	holes		vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Patient
2	vanish	present	Wicked little faces not said here		the sight of Rat	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stop	present	whistling and pattering			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	sight			Rat		nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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:035-willows-ch3-part3-snow-in-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 ×2, 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.

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