--- title: The Mole sees «the dust lying thick on everything … the cheerless, d… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 3: Dulc… · tree and pragmatics description: The Mole sees «the dust lying thick on everything … the cheerless, deserted look of the long-neglected house, and its narrow, meagre dimensions» (meagre = small and poor). Who acts: Mole, dust. 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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, dust), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:043-willows-ch5-part3-sardines-and-carol-singers.lesson:16 # text = The Mole sees «the dust lying thick on everything … the cheerless, deserted look of the long-neglected house, and its narrow, meagre dimensions» (meagre = small and poor). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 043-willows-ch5-part3-sardines-and-carol-singers.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 ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Mole mole NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 sees see VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 dust dust NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 lying lie VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 acl _ _ 8 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 xcomp _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 7 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:obl 11 … . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 13 cheerless cheerless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 deserted desert VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 amod _ _ 16 look look NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 19 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 compound _ _ 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ _ 21 neglected neglect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 amod _ _ 22 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 25 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 26 narrow narrow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 28 meagre meagre ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 dimensions dimension NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 30 » » PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ _ 31 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 32 punct _ _ 32 meagre meagre NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 33 = = SYM SYM _ 34 punct _ _ 34 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 conj _ _ 37 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 34 punct _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | present | the Mole | the dust and the cheerless deserted look of the neglected house and house's narrow meagre dimensions | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dust=Stimulus | | 2 | **lie** *in a quote* | gerund | the dust and the cheerless deserted look of the neglected house and house's narrow meagre dimensions *not said here* | | | everything | | thick *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on everything=Location | | 3 | **desert** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **neglect** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn neglect-75.1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent | 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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