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title: The bare winter countryside seems to show him «the insides of things… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 1: Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: The bare winter countryside seems to show him «the insides of things», and he likes it plain and strong. Who acts: bare winter countryside, countryside. 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
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 1: The Wild Wood (winter, and the Mole sets out alone), sentence 6

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The bare winter countryside seems to show him «the insides of things», and he likes it plain and strong.

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**Who acts:** bare winter countryside, countryside · **What happens:** seem, show, like · **To what, where:** insides, countryside, Mole

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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 (bare winter countryside, countryside), 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:6
# text = The bare winter countryside seems to show him «the insides of things», and he likes it plain and strong.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	countryside	countryside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	iobj	_	_
9	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	insides	inside	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:obl
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
14	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	likes	like	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **seem** | present | the bare winter countryside |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **show** | to-infinitive | the bare winter countryside *not said here* | the insides of things | countryside |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient inside=Topic |
| 3 | **like** | present | countryside | Mole |  |  |  | plain *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |

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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:033-willows-ch3-part1-winter-and-the-way-to-the-wood.lesson:6`.

**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): 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.

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

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