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title: The Mole sees that his friend's eyes have turned a streaked, shiftin… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 5: Way… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Mole sees that his friend's eyes have turned a streaked, shifting grey — «not his friend's eyes» — and drags him inside and holds him down; the Rat struggles, then shivers, sobs and falls asleep, while the Mole locks the satchel away. Who acts: Mole, eyes, Rat. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 5: Wayfarers All (the spell, the Mole and the cure), sentence 3

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The Mole sees that his friend's eyes have turned a streaked, shifting grey — «not his friend's eyes» — and drags him inside and holds him down; the Rat struggles, then shivers, sobs and falls asleep, while the Mole locks the satchel away.

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**Who acts:** Mole, eyes, Rat · **What happens:** see, turn, streak, shift, drag, hold down · **To what, where:** streaked shifting grey, Mole, satchel · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 5: Wayfarers All (the spell, the Mole and the cure)» 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 (Mole, eyes, Rat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:060-willows-ch9-part5-the-call-and-the-cure.lesson:3
# text = The Mole sees that his friend's eyes have turned a streaked, shifting grey — «not his friend's eyes» — and drags him inside and holds him down; the Rat struggles, then shivers, sobs and falls asleep, while the Mole locks the satchel away.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 060-willows-ch9-part5-the-call-and-the-cure.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×8, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:det
12	streaked	streak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	shifting	shift	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:advcl
15	grey	grey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
16	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
17	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:obl
23	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct
24	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	drags	drag	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:advmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	holds	hold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	down	down	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
33	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	Rat	rat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
36	struggles	struggle	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=36:punct
38	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	39	advmod	_	_
39	shivers	shiver	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	conj	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	sobs	sob	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	conj	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	conj	_	_
44	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	xcomp	_	_
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
46	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	Mole	mole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nsubj	_	_
49	locks	lock	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	advcl	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	satchel	satchel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=52:obj
52	away	away	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
53	.	.	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 | **see** | present | the Mole |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **turn** | present · perfect | Mole's friend's eyes | a streaked shifting grey |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent grey=Theme |
| 3 | **streak** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **shift** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **drag** | present | the Mole *not said here* | Mole |  |  |  | inside *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 6 | **hold down** | present | the Mole *not said here* | Mole |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 7 | **struggle** | present | the Rat |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **shiver** | present | the Rat *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | vn body\_internal\_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 9 | **sob** | present | the Rat *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **fall** | present | the Rat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 11 | **lock away** | present | the Mole | the satchel |  |  |  | away *property* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent satchel=Patient |

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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:060-willows-ch9-part5-the-call-and-the-cure.lesson:3`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×8, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. **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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