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title: «But to-day all that seems pale and thin and very far away. — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 2: Way… · tree and pragmatics
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 2: Wayfarers All (the swallows and the call of the South), sentence 22

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«But to-day all that seems pale and thin and very far away.

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**Who acts:** that · **What happens:** seem

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 2: Wayfarers All (the swallows and the call of the South)» 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 (that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:057-willows-ch9-part2-the-swallows.lesson:22
# text = «But to-day all that seems pale and thin and very far away.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 057-willows-ch9-part2-the-swallows.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): no change
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
2	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	discourse	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	_
8	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	very	very	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
15	away	away	ADV	RB	_	9	conj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** *in a quote* | present | that |  |  |  | day | pale *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |

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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:057-willows-ch9-part2-the-swallows.lesson:22`.

**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): no change. **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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