--- title: Summer is told as a play with flowers as actors: «Purple loosestrife… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 1: Th… · tree and pragmatics description: Summer is told as a play with flowers as actors: «Purple loosestrife arrived early», then «Willow-herb, tender and wistful, like a pink sunset cloud», then comfrey, then «the diffident and delaying dog-rose», and last «meadow-sweet ... in amber jerkin» — and then «the play was ready to begin» (diffi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/33-willows-ch3-part1-winter-and-the-way-to-the-wood/20/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [The Wind in the Willows, chapter III,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/33-willows-ch3-part1-winter-and-the-way-to-the-wood/) / 20 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 1: The Wild Wood (winter, and the Mole sets out alone), sentence 20 Summer is told as a play with flowers as actors: «Purple loosestrife arrived early», then «Willow-herb, tender and wistful, like a pink sunset cloud», then comfrey, then «the diffident and delaying dog-rose», and last «meadow-sweet ... in amber jerkin» — and then «the play was ready to begin» (diffident = shy; a jerkin = an old short jacket). **Who acts:** Purple loosestrife, play · **What happens:** tell, arrive, delay, be, begin · **To what, where:** Summer, actors, dog rose · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 1: The Wild Wood (winter, and the Mole sets out alone)» 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 (Purple loosestrife, play), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:033-willows-ch3-part1-winter-and-the-way-to-the-wood.lesson:20 # text = Summer is told as a play with flowers as actors: «Purple loosestrife arrived early», then «Willow-herb, tender and wistful, like a pink sunset cloud», then comfrey, then «the diffident and delaying dog-rose», and last «meadow-sweet ... in amber jerkin» — and then «the play was ready to begin» (diffident = shy; a jerkin = an old short jacket). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 033-willows-ch3-part1-winter-and-the-way-to-the-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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 as as ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 play play NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 9 as as ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 actors actor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 12 « « PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 13 Purple purple ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 loosestrife loosestrife NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 arrived arrive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 16 early early ADV RB Degree=Pos 15 advmod _ _ 17 » » PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 23 advmod _ _ 20 « « PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 21 Willow Willow PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ _ 23 herb herb NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:iobj 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 tender tender ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 wistful wistful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:conj 28 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 like like ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 31 pink pink ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 32 sunset sunset NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 cloud cloud NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 ccomp _ _ 34 » » PUNCT '' _ 37 punct _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 37 advmod _ _ 37 comfrey comfrey NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 39 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 42 advmod _ _ 40 « « PUNCT `` _ 42 punct _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 diffident diffident ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 parataxis _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 delaying delay VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 42 conj _ _ 45 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 compound _ _ 46 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 45 punct _ _ 47 rose rose NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ _ 48 » » PUNCT '' _ 47 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=44:punct 49 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 50 and and CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 51 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 conj _ _ 52 « « PUNCT `` _ 55 punct _ _ 53 meadow meadow NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=55:obl:unmarked 54 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 53 punct _ _ 55 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 ccomp _ _ 56 ... ... PUNCT , _ 59 punct _ _ 57 in in ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 58 amber amber NOUN NN Number=Sing 59 compound _ _ 59 jerkin jerkin NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 conj _ _ 60 » » PUNCT '' _ 59 punct _ _ 61 — - PUNCT : _ 42 punct _ _ 62 and and CCONJ CC _ 68 cc _ _ 63 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 64 advmod _ _ 64 « « PUNCT `` _ 68 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct 65 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 66 det _ _ 66 play play NOUN NN Number=Sing 68 nsubj _ _ 67 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 68 cop _ _ 68 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 69 to to PART TO _ 70 mark _ _ 70 begin begin VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 68 xcomp _ _ 71 » » PUNCT '' _ 70 punct _ _ 72 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 73 punct _ _ 73 diffident diffident ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 68 parataxis _ _ 74 = = PUNCT , _ 75 punct _ _ 75 shy shy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 73 conj _ _ 76 ; ; PUNCT , _ 78 punct _ _ 77 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 78 det _ _ 78 jerkin jerkin NOUN NN Number=Sing 73 appos _ _ 79 = = PUNCT , _ 83 punct _ _ 80 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 83 det _ _ 81 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 83 amod _ _ 82 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 83 amod _ _ 83 jacket jacket NOUN NN Number=Sing 73 appos _ _ 84 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 83 punct _ _ 85 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · passive | | Summer | | | | as a play with flowers; as actors | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 2 | **arrive** *in a quote* | past | Purple loosestrife | actors *not said here* | | | | early *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **delay** *in a quote* | gerund | | dog rose | | | | | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent rose=Source | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | past | the play | | | | | ready *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **begin** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the play *not said here* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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:033-willows-ch3-part1-winter-and-the-way-to-the-wood.lesson:20`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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