--- title: Wicked little faces pop out of holes — and vanish at the sight of hi… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 3: Th… · tree and pragmatics description: 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. 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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 (Wicked little faces, whistling), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:035-willows-ch3-part3-snow-in-the-wild-wood.lesson:1 # text = 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. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 035-willows-ch3-part3-snow-in-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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Wicked wicked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 faces face NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 pop pop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 out out ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 holes hole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 8 — - PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 vanish vanish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 11 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 pistols pistol NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:obl 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 21 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 22 ugly ugly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 stick stick NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:det 26 whistling whistling NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 pattering patter NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 stop stop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 30 . . 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 | **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](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: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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter III,…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/35-willows-ch3-part3-snow-in-the-wild-wood/0/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter III,…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/35-willows-ch3-part3-snow-in-the-wild-wood/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/35-willows-ch3-part3-snow-in-the-wild-wood/)