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title: It is the end of summer: «green had given way to gold» in the fields… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 1: Way… · tree and pragmatics
description: It is the end of summer: «green had given way to gold» in the fields, and «rowans were reddening» (a rowan is a tree with bright red berries). Who acts: name, green, rowans, rowan. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 1: Wayfarers All (change in the air)» of the books 
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 1: Wayfarers All (change in the air), sentence 6

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It is the end of summer: «green had given way to gold» in the fields, and «rowans were reddening» (a rowan is a tree with bright red berries).

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**Who acts:** name, green, rowans, rowan · **What happens:** be, give, redden · **To what, where:** end, way, gold, fields, tree · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 1: Wayfarers All (change in the air)» 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 (name, green, rowans, rowan), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:056-willows-ch9-part1-change-in-the-air.lesson:6
# text = It is the end of summer: «green had given way to gold» in the fields, and «rowans were reddening» (a rowan is a tree with bright red berries).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 056-willows-ch9-part1-change-in-the-air.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
8	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
9	green	green	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:acl
12	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
22	rowans	rowan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	reddening	redden	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
25	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
26	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	31	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	rowan	rowan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
36	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	31	punct	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is a** | present | name | the end |  |  | summer |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** *in a quote* | past · perfect | green | way | gold | the fields |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent way=Theme to gold=Recipient |
| 3 | **redden** *in a quote* | past · progressive | rowans |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **is a** | present | a rowan | a tree |  |  |  | with bright red berries | tree rules |

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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:056-willows-ch9-part1-change-in-the-air.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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