--- title: Then the faces begin: a little evil wedge-shaped face in a hole, gon… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 2: Th… · tree and pragmatics description: 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. 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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 (faces, Mole, hole, eyed face), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:034-willows-ch3-part2-the-terror-of-the-wild-wood.lesson:1 # text = 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. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 034-willows-ch3-part2-the-terror-of-the-wild-wood.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, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 faces face NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 begin begin VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 7 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 8 evil evil ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 9 wedge wedge NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl:unmarked _ _ 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ _ 11 shaped shaped ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 gone go VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 parataxis _ _ 18 when when SCONJ WRB _ 21 mark _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:det 20 Mole mole NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 24 advmod _ _ 24 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 12 conj _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 28 advmod _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:nsubj 28 seems seem VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 29 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 30 det _ _ 30 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 ccomp _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 33 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:compound|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 33 punct _ _ 35 eyed eye ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=36:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 37 glaring glare VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 36 acl _ _ 38 at at ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | 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](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. 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