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title: The sun seems to pull green things «up out of the earth towards him,… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 1: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics
description: The sun seems to pull green things «up out of the earth towards him, as if by strings». Who acts: sun. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 1: Mr. Toad (the hour of Toad, and off with those motor-clothes!)» of the books course of Mova's primary school with its dependen
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 1: Mr. Toad (the hour of Toad, and off with those motor-clothes!), sentence 14

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The sun seems to pull green things «up out of the earth towards him, as if by strings».

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**Who acts:** sun · **What happens:** seem, pull up · **To what, where:** green things, earth

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 1: Mr. Toad (the hour of Toad, and off with those motor-clothes!)» 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 (sun), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:045-willows-ch6-part1-the-hour-of-toad.lesson:14
# text = The sun seems to pull green things «up out of the earth towards him, as if by strings».
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 045-willows-ch6-part1-the-hour-of-toad.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	2	det	_	_
2	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
14	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
18	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	strings	string	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
21	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
22	.	.	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 | **seem** | present | the sun |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **pull up** | to-infinitive | the sun *not said here* | green things |  | the earth |  | towards sun; by strings | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent thing=Theme out earth=Initial\_Location towards he=Destination |

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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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**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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