The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 1: The Wild Wood (winter, and the Mole sets out alone), sentence 20

Summer is told as a play with flowers as actors: «Purple loosestrife arrived early», then «Willow-herb, tender and wistful, like a pink sunset cloud», then comfrey, then «the diffident and delaying dog-rose», and last «meadow-sweet ... in amber jerkin» — and then «the play was ready to begin» (diffident = shy; a jerkin = an old short jacket).

Who acts: Purple loosestrife, play · What happens: tell, arrive, delay, be, begin · To what, where: Summer, actors, dog rose · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 1: The Wild Wood (winter, and the Mole sets out alone)» 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 (Purple loosestrife, play), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 told	aux:pass
3	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 play	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 play	det
6	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 flowers	case
8	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 play	nmod
9	as	as	ADP	_	10 actors	case
10	actors	actor	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 told	obl
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 arrived	punct
12	«	«	PUNCT	_	15 arrived	punct
13	Purple	purple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 loosestrife	amod
14	loosestrife	loosestrife	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 arrived	nsubj
15	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 actors	acl:relcl
16	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 arrived	advmod
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 arrived	punct
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 herb	punct
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 herb	advmod
20	«	«	PUNCT	_	23 herb	punct
21	Willow	Willow	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 herb	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 Willow	punct
23	herb	herb	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 arrived	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 tender	punct
25	tender	tender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 herb	amod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 wistful	cc
27	wistful	wistful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 tender	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 cloud	punct
29	like	like	ADP	_	33 cloud	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 cloud	det
31	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 cloud	amod
32	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 cloud	compound
33	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	ccomp
34	»	»	PUNCT	_	37 comfrey	punct
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 comfrey	punct
36	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 comfrey	advmod
37	comfrey	comfrey	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 cloud	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 diffident	punct
39	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	42 diffident	advmod
40	«	«	PUNCT	_	42 diffident	punct
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 diffident	det
42	diffident	diffident	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 cloud	parataxis
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 delaying	cc
44	delaying	delay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	42 diffident	conj
45	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 rose	compound
46	-	-	PUNCT	_	45 dog	punct
47	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 delaying	obj
48	»	»	PUNCT	_	47 rose	punct
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 last	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 last	cc
51	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 diffident	conj
52	«	«	PUNCT	_	55 sweet	punct
53	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 sweet	compound
54	-	-	PUNCT	_	53 meadow	punct
55	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 last	ccomp
56	...	...	PUNCT	_	59 jerkin	punct
57	in	in	ADP	_	59 jerkin	case
58	amber	amber	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 jerkin	compound
59	jerkin	jerkin	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 diffident	conj
60	»	»	PUNCT	_	59 jerkin	punct
61	—	-	PUNCT	_	42 diffident	punct
62	and	and	CCONJ	_	68 ready	cc
63	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	64 «	advmod
64	«	«	PUNCT	_	68 ready	punct
65	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 play	det
66	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 ready	nsubj
67	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	68 ready	cop
68	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 told	conj
69	to	to	PART	_	70 begin	mark
70	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	68 ready	xcomp
71	»	»	PUNCT	_	70 begin	punct
72	(	(	PUNCT	_	73 diffident	punct
73	diffident	diffident	ADJ	Degree=Pos	68 ready	parataxis
74	=	=	PUNCT	_	75 shy	punct
75	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	73 diffident	conj
76	;	;	PUNCT	_	78 jerkin	punct
77	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	78 jerkin	det
78	jerkin	jerkin	NOUN	Number=Sing	73 diffident	appos
79	=	=	PUNCT	_	83 jacket	punct
80	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	83 jacket	det
81	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	83 jacket	amod
82	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	83 jacket	amod
83	jacket	jacket	NOUN	Number=Sing	73 diffident	appos
84	)	)	PUNCT	_	83 jacket	punct
85	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · passive		Summer	as a play with flowers; as actors	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	arrive in a quote	past	Purple loosestrife	actors not said here	early property	tree rules
3	delay in a quote	gerund		dog rose		vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent rose=Source
4	is in a quote	past	the play		ready property	tree rules
5	begin in a quote	to-infinitive	the play not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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