--- title: A breeze blows «lightly and caressingly in their faces; and with its… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 3: Th… · tree and pragmatics description: A breeze blows «lightly and caressingly in their faces; and with its soft touch came instant oblivion» (oblivion = complete forgetting). Who acts: breeze. 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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 (breeze), 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:7 # text = A breeze blows «lightly and caressingly in their faces; and with its soft touch came instant oblivion» (oblivion = complete forgetting). # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 breeze breeze NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 blows blow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 5 lightly lightly ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 caressingly caressingly ADV RB _ 5 conj _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 faces face NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 13 with with SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 14 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 touch touch NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:nsubj 17 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 18 instant instant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 oblivion oblivion NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 » » PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 21 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 22 punct _ _ 22 oblivion oblivion NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 23 = = PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 complete complete ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 forgetting forgetting NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 appos _ _ 26 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 25 punct _ _ 27 . . 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 | **blow** | present | a breeze | | | birds's faces | | lightly *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **come** *in a quote* | past | a breeze *not said here* | breeze's soft touch | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location oblivion=Theme | | 3 | **touch** *in a quote* | | breeze | | | | | | nom touch «event transitive»: poss=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:7`. **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, R8-pos-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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