The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 1: Mr. Toad (the hour of Toad, and off with those motor-clothes!), sentence 14
The sun seems to pull green things «up out of the earth towards him, as if by strings».
Who acts: sun · What happens: seem, pull up · To what, where: green things, earth
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 1: Mr. Toad (the hour of Toad, and off with those motor-clothes!)» 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 (sun), 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 | 2 sun | det |
| 2 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seems | nsubj |
| 3 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 pull | mark |
| 5 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 seems | xcomp |
| 6 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 things | amod |
| 7 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pull | obj |
| 8 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 pull | punct |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 pull | compound:prt |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 earth | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 earth | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 earth | det |
| 13 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pull | obl |
| 14 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 pull | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 strings | punct |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 strings | mark |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 strings | mark |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 strings | case |
| 20 | strings | string | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pull | obl |
| 21 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 20 strings | punct |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seems | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | the sun | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | pull up | to-infinitive | the sun not said here | green things | the earth | towards sun; by strings | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent thing=Theme out earth=Initial_Location towards he=Destination |
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:045-willows-ch6-part1-the-hour-of-toad.lesson:14.
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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