The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 1: The Wild Wood (winter, and the Mole sets out alone), sentence 6

The bare winter countryside seems to show him «the insides of things», and he likes it plain and strong.

Who acts: bare winter countryside, countryside · What happens: seem, show, like · To what, where: insides, countryside, Mole

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 (bare winter countryside, countryside), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 countryside	det
2	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 countryside	amod
3	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 countryside	compound
4	countryside	countryside	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seems	nsubj
5	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 show	mark
7	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 seems	xcomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 show	iobj
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 insides	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 insides	det
11	insides	inside	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 show	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 things	case
13	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 insides	nmod
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 insides	punct
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 likes	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 likes	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 likes	nsubj
18	likes	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 seems	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 likes	obj
20	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 likes	xcomp
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 strong	cc
22	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 plain	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 seems	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	seem	present	the bare winter countryside				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	show	to-infinitive	the bare winter countryside not said here	the insides of things	countryside		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient inside=Topic
3	like	present	countryside	Mole		plain property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

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, 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:033-willows-ch3-part1-winter-and-the-way-to-the-wood.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): 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.

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