The garden in autumn: colours, conkers, webs and buried nuts, sentence 6

In autumn trees break down the green stuff in their leaves and take back what they can; yellows were hidden under the green all summer, while reds are newly made, and sunny days with cold nights give the brightest reds.

Who acts: trees, sunny days · What happens: break down, take back, hide, make, give · To what, where: green stuff, leaves, yellows, reds, brightest reds

This is a sentence of the lesson «The garden in autumn: colours, conkers, webs and buried nuts» of the biology 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 (trees, sunny days), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

assert

voice

narrator

polarity

neg

teacher

kept the draft

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/335-the-garden-in-autumn-colours-conkers-webs-and-buried-nuts/6/