--- title: «All Nature joining in a chorus of approval to the song of self-prai… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics description: «All Nature joining in a chorus of approval to the song of self-praise that his own heart was singing to him, he almost danced along the road in his satisfaction and conceit.» Who acts: Nature, own heart, Toad, self praise. 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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 (Nature, own heart, Toad, self praise), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:048-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon.lesson:15 # text = «All Nature joining in a chorus of approval to the song of self-praise that his own heart was singing to him, he almost danced along the road in his satisfaction and conceit.» # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 048-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon.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 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 2 All all DET DT PronType=Tot 3 det _ _ 3 Nature nature NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 4 joining join VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 acl _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 chorus chorus NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 approval approval NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 self self NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ _ 16 praise praise NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 17 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 obj _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 19 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 singing sing VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 acl:relcl _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 almost almost ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 danced dance VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 29 along along ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 satisfaction satisfaction NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:nmod 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 conceit conceit NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ _ 38 » » PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **join** *in a quote* | gerund | all Nature *not said here* | | | a chorus of approval | | to the song of self praise | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient to song=Co-Patient | | 2 | **sing** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past · progressive | Toad's own heart | self praise | Toad | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Topic to he=Recipient | | 3 | **dance** *in a quote* | past | Toad | all Nature | | Toad's satisfaction and conceit | | along the road; almost *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along road=Location | | 4 | **chorus** *in a quote* | | | approval | | | | | nom chorus «event transitive»: of=patient | | 5 | **sing** *in a quote* | | self praise | | | | | | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent | | 6 | **satisfy** *in a quote* | | Toad | | | | | | nom satisfaction «feeling transitive»: poss=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](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:048-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon.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 ×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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