--- title: «There seemed to be no end to this wood, and no beginning, and no di… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 3: Th… · tree and pragmatics description: «There seemed to be no end to this wood, and no beginning, and no difference in it, and, worst of all, no way out.» Who acts: end. 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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 (end), 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:39 # text = «There seemed to be no end to this wood, and no beginning, and no difference in it, and, worst of all, no way out.» # 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 3 expl _ _ 3 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:mark 5 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:cop|HaikuPos=AUX:VB:VerbForm=Inf 6 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 7 det _ _ 7 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:xcomp 8 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 10 det _ _ 10 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 14 det _ _ 14 beginning beginning NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 18 det _ _ 18 difference difference NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 worst bad ADV RBS Degree=Sup 3 advmod _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 24 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:nmod 27 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 28 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 29 det _ _ 29 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl:unmarked _ _ 30 out out ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 32 » » 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 | **seem** *in a quote* | past | | | | there | | bad, out *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 2 | **be** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | no end to this wood and no beginning and no difference in wood | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:035-willows-ch3-part3-snow-in-the-wild-wood.lesson:39`. **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 ×3, 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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