--- title: On the way back the flowers seem to have «less of richness and blaze… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 3: Th… · tree and pragmatics description: On the way back the flowers seem to have «less of richness and blaze of colour than they seemed to remember seeing quite recently somewhere — they wondered where». Who acts: flowers, colour. 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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 (flowers, colour), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:051-willows-ch7-part3-the-gift-of-forgetfulness.lesson:15 # text = On the way back the flowers seem to have «less of richness and blaze of colour than they seemed to remember seeing quite recently somewhere — they wondered where». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 051-willows-ch7-part3-the-gift-of-forgetfulness.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 On on ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 4 back back ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 seem seem VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 10 « « PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 11 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 9 obj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 richness richness NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:nmod 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 blaze blaze NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 18 than than SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 remember remember VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 seeing see VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 xcomp _ _ 24 quite quite ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:advmod 25 recently recently ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:advmod 26 somewhere somewhere ADV RB PronType=Ind 23 advmod _ _ 27 — - PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 wondered wonder VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 30 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 29 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:conj 31 » » PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | **seem** | present | the flowers | | | the way | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 2 | **have** | to-infinitive | the flowers *not said here* | less | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **seem** *in a quote* | past | flowers *= flower* | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 4 | **remember** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | flowers *= flower* *not said here* | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **see** *in a quote* | gerund | flowers *= flower* *not said here* | | | | | recently, somewhere *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **wonder** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | past | flowers *= flower* | | | | | | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **blaze** *in a quote* | | colour | | | | | | nom blaze «process intransitive»: of=agent | 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:051-willows-ch7-part3-the-gift-of-forgetfulness.lesson:15`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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