The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 2: Wayfarers All (the swallows and the call of the South), sentence 22
«But to-day all that seems pale and thin and very far away.
Who acts: that · What happens: seem
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 2: Wayfarers All (the swallows and the call of the South)» 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 (that), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 seems | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 seems | discourse |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 day | case |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 to | punct |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seems | obl |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 that | det:predet |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 seems | nsubj |
| 8 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 seems | xcomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 thin | cc |
| 11 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pale | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 away | cc |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 far | advmod |
| 14 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 away | advmod |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 pale | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 seems | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem in a quote | present | that | day | pale property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=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:057-willows-ch9-part2-the-swallows.lesson:22.
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): no change. 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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