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title: The snow made the wood «a gleaming carpet of faery» (faery = fairyla… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 3: Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: The snow made the wood «a gleaming carpet of faery» (faery = fairyland) that «looked too delicate to be trodden upon by rough feet», and «a fine powder filled the air and caressed the cheek with a tingle». Who acts: snow, gleaming carpet, rough feet, fine powder. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind i
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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 35

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The snow made the wood «a gleaming carpet of faery» (faery = fairyland) that «looked too delicate to be trodden upon by rough feet», and «a fine powder filled the air and caressed the cheek with a tingle».

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**Who acts:** snow, gleaming carpet, rough feet, fine powder · **What happens:** make, gleam, look, tread, fill, caress · **To what, where:** wood, air, cheek

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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 (snow, gleaming carpet, rough feet, fine powder), 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:35
# text = The snow made the wood «a gleaming carpet of faery» (faery = fairyland) that «looked too delicate to be trodden upon by rough feet», and «a fine powder filled the air and caressed the cheek with a tingle».
# 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	gleaming	gleam	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	amod	_	_
9	carpet	carpet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	faery	faery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
13	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
14	faery	faery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
15	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	fairyland	fairyland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
20	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
21	too	too	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	delicate	delicate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	trodden	tread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	xcomp	_	_
26	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	25	obl	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl:agent	_	_
30	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
33	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	powder	powder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	filled	fill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:conj
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	caressed	caress	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	conj	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	cheek	cheek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
44	with	with	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	tingle	tingle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
47	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	37	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=41:punct
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the snow | the wood |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset wood=Beneficiary carpet=Product |
| 2 | **gleam** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **look** *in a quote* | past | a gleaming carpet of faery |  |  |  |  | delicate *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **tread** *in a quote* | to-infinitive · passive | rough feet |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **fill** *in a quote* | past | a fine powder | the air |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent air=Patient |
| 6 | **caress** *in a quote* | past | a fine powder *not said here* | the cheek |  |  |  | with a tingle | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent cheek=Experiencer with tingle=Instrument |

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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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**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 ×1, R6-punct-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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