The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 3: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (the gift of forgetfulness), sentence 15

On the way back the flowers seem to have «less of richness and blaze of colour than they seemed to remember seeing quite recently somewhere — they wondered where».

Who acts: flowers, colour · What happens: seem, have, remember, see, wonder, blaze · To what, where: way, less · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 3: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (the gift of forgetfulness)» 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 (flowers, colour), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 way	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 way	det
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 seem	obl
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 way	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 flowers	det
6	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 seem	nsubj
7	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 have	mark
9	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 seem	xcomp
10	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 less	punct
11	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 have	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 richness	case
13	richness	richness	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 less	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 blaze	cc
15	blaze	blaze	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 richness	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 colour	case
17	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 blaze	nmod
18	than	than	SCONJ	_	20 seemed	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 seemed	nsubj
20	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 less	advcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 remember	mark
22	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 seemed	xcomp
23	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 remember	xcomp
24	quite	quite	ADV	_	25 recently	advmod
25	recently	recently	ADV	_	23 seeing	advmod
26	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	23 seeing	advmod
27	—	-	PUNCT	_	29 wondered	punct
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 wondered	nsubj
29	wondered	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 have	parataxis
30	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	29 wondered	advmod
31	»	»	PUNCT	_	29 wondered	punct
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 seem	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seem	present	the flowers		the way		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	have	to-infinitive	the flowers not said here	less			tree rules
3	seem in a quote	past	flowers = flower				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	remember in a quote	to-infinitive	flowers = flower not said here				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	see in a quote	gerund	flowers = flower not said here			recently, somewhere property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	wonder speech: ask in a quote	past	flowers = flower				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	blaze in a quote		colour				nom blaze «process intransitive»: of=agent

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:051-willows-ch7-part3-the-gift-of-forgetfulness.lesson:15.

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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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