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title: «Here and there wicked little faces popped out of holes, but vanishe… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 3: Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: «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. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 3: The 
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 3: The Wild Wood (the Rat finds the Mole, and the snow comes), sentence 16

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«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).

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**Who acts:** wicked little faces, Rat · **What happens:** pop out, vanish, sight, grasp · **To what, where:** holes, sight, valorous animal

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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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:035-willows-ch3-part3-snow-in-the-wild-wood.lesson:16
# text = «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).
# 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 ×4
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	conj	_	_
5	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	popped	pop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:parataxis
9	out	out	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	vanished	vanish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:parataxis
15	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	valorous	valorous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	pistols	pistol	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	cudgel	cudgel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	grasp	grasp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	36	punct	_	_
35	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	36	punct	_	_
36	valorous	valorous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	parataxis	_	_
37	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	conj	_	_
39	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | 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 |

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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.

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**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: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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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