--- title: The Mole had never seen a river before, and was «bewitched, entrance… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 1: The… · tree and pragmatics description: The Mole had never seen a river before, and was «bewitched, entranced, fascinated»; it seemed to him «this sleek, sinuous, full-bodied animal, chasing and chuckling» (sinuous = winding like a snake). Who acts: Mole, it, sleek sinuous bodied animal, sinuous. 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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 (Mole, it, sleek sinuous bodied animal, sinuous), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:025-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river.lesson:22 # text = The Mole had never seen a river before, and was «bewitched, entranced, fascinated»; it seemed to him «this sleek, sinuous, full-bodied animal, chasing and chuckling» (sinuous = winding like a snake). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 025-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Mole Mole PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 before before ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 12 « « PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 13 bewitched bewitch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 entranced entrance VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 13 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 fascinated fascinate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 13 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=15:conj 18 » » PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obl _ _ 24 « « PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct 25 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 33 det _ _ 26 sleek sleek ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 28 sinuous sinuous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 30 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:amod 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ _ 32 bodied body ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=33:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 xcomp _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 chasing chase VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 33 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:xcomp 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 chuckling chuckle VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 35 conj _ _ 38 » » PUNCT '' _ 37 punct _ _ 39 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 40 punct _ _ 40 sinuous sinuous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 nsubj _ _ 41 = = PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 42 winding wind VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 35 parataxis _ _ 43 like like ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ _ 46 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 42 punct _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **see** | past · perfect | the Mole | a river | | | | before *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer river=Stimulus | | 2 | **bewitch** *in a quote* | past · passive | the Mole *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **entrance** *in a quote* | participle | the Mole *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **fascinate** *in a quote* | participle | the Mole *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **seem** | past | it | this sleek sinuous bodied animal | Mole | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **chase** *in a quote* | gerund | this sleek sinuous bodied animal *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **chuckle** *in a quote* | gerund | this sleek sinuous bodied animal *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **wind** | gerund | sinuous | | | | | like a snake | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | 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:025-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river.lesson:22`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×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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