--- title: The last verse: «High in the blue above Swifts whirl and call— We ar… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 1: The… · tree and pragmatics description: The last verse: «High in the blue above Swifts whirl and call— We are down a-dabbling Uptails all!» So «Up tails all!» comes twice: at the end of the first verse and as the very last line. Who acts: Swifts, We, last verse. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Swifts, We, last verse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:029-willows-ch2-part1-ducks-ditty-and-toad-hall.lesson:19 # text = The last verse: «High in the blue above Swifts whirl and call— We are down a-dabbling Uptails all!» So «Up tails all!» comes twice: at the end of the first verse and as the very last line. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 029-willows-ch2-part1-ducks-ditty-and-toad-hall.lesson # annotation = 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×5, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 verse verse NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 5 « « PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 6 High high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 blue blue NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obl 10 above above ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 Swifts swift PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 12 whirl whirl VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 15 — - PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct 16 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 17 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 18 down down ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ _ 21 dabbling dabbling VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 22 Uptails uptails X GW ExtPos=PROPN 21 appos _ _ 23 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 22 obj _ _ 24 ! ! PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ _ 25 » » PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 26 So so ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:advmod 27 « « PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct 28 Up up ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 tails tail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 parataxis _ _ 30 all all ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 ! ! PUNCT . _ 29 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct 32 » » PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 33 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 34 twice twice ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 33 advmod _ _ 35 : : PUNCT : _ 38 punct _ _ 36 at at ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 42 amod _ _ 42 verse verse NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 44 as as ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 46 very very ADV RB _ 47 advmod _ _ 47 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 conj _ _ 49 . . PUNCT . _ 33 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **whirl** *in a quote* | present | Swifts | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **call** *in a quote* | present | Swifts *not said here* | | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | We | | | | | dabbling, down *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **come** | present | the last verse | | | | at the end of the first verse and the last line | twice *property* | tree rules | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:029-willows-ch2-part1-ducks-ditty-and-toad-hall.lesson:19`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×5, 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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