The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 3: The Wild Wood (the Rat finds the Mole, and the snow comes), sentence 16
«Here and there wicked little faces popped out of holes, but vanished immediately at sight of the valorous animal, his pistols, and the great ugly cudgel in his grasp» (valorous = brave).
Who acts: wicked little faces, Rat · What happens: pop out, vanish, sight, grasp · To what, where: holes, sight, valorous animal
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, Rat), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 2 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 popped | advmod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 there | cc |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Here | conj |
| 5 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 faces | amod |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 faces | amod |
| 7 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 popped | nsubj |
| 8 | popped | pop | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 holes | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 holes | case |
| 11 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 popped | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 vanished | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 vanished | cc |
| 14 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 popped | conj |
| 15 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 14 vanished | advmod |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 sight | case |
| 17 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 vanished | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 animal | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 animal | det |
| 20 | valorous | valorous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 animal | amod |
| 21 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sight | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 pistols | punct |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 pistols | nmod:poss |
| 24 | pistols | pistol | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 animal | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 cudgel | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 cudgel | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 cudgel | det |
| 28 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 cudgel | amod |
| 29 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 cudgel | amod |
| 30 | cudgel | cudgel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Here | parataxis |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 grasp | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 grasp | nmod:poss |
| 33 | grasp | grasp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 cudgel | nmod |
| 34 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 36 valorous | punct |
| 35 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 36 valorous | punct |
| 36 | valorous | valorous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 cudgel | parataxis |
| 37 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 38 brave | punct |
| 38 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 valorous | conj |
| 39 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pop out in a quote | past | wicked little faces | holes | here | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Patient | |||
| 2 | vanish in a quote | past | wicked little faces not said here | sight of the valorous animal and Rat's pistols | immediately property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | sight in a quote | the valorous animal and Rat's pistols | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | grasp in a quote | Rat | nom grasp «cognition transitive»: poss=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, 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: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 ×4. 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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