--- title: The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 3: The Further Adventures of Toad (the most conceited song and the very same motor-car) — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 3: The Further Adventures of Toad (the most conceited song and the very same motor-car)», a lesson of the books course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. 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How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/63-willows-ch10-part3-the-conceited-song/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/63-willows-ch10-part3-the-conceited-song/0/) — Full of stew and with money in his pocket, Toad marches along with his chin in the air, telling himself the story of his own cleverness: prison, train, canal, horse — he has beaten them all! - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/63-willows-ch10-part3-the-conceited-song/1/) — He makes up a song in praise of himself and sings it at the top of his voice, though nobody is there to hear. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/63-willows-ch10-part3-the-conceited-song/2/) — The book calls it «perhaps the most conceited song that any animal ever composed». - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/63-willows-ch10-part3-the-conceited-song/4/) — Toad is thrilled: he will tell them a story, get a lift, and perhaps even drive up to Toad Hall in a car — «one in the eye for Badger!» - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/63-willows-ch10-part3-the-conceited-song/5/) — Then his heart turns to water. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/63-willows-ch10-part3-the-conceited-song/6/) — It is the very car he stole from the yard of the Red Lion, with the very same people in it! - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/63-willows-ch10-part3-the-conceited-song/7/) — He collapses in a heap in the road, groaning at what a fool he has been to strut about singing instead of hiding till dark. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/63-willows-ch10-part3-the-conceited-song/8/) — But the gentlemen don't recognise him. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/63-willows-ch10-part3-the-conceited-song/9/) — They think he is a poor old washerwoman who has fainted from the heat, and kindly lift him into the car. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/63-willows-ch10-part3-the-conceited-song/10/) — Toad opens one eye, then the other — and soon he is asking to sit in the front seat «for the fresh air», right beside the driver, as the old craving creeps over him again — and soon he will be begging to drive. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/63-willows-ch10-part3-the-conceited-song/11/) — Toad boasts to himself: «My enemies shut me up in prison... - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/63-willows-ch10-part3-the-conceited-song/12/) — I walk out through them all... - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/63-willows-ch10-part3-the-conceited-song/15/) — The song begins: «The world has held great Heroes, / As history-books have showed; / But never a name to go down to fame / Compared with that of Toad!» - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/63-willows-ch10-part3-the-conceited-song/18/) — «There was a great deal more of the same sort, but too dreadfully conceited to be written down. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/63-willows-ch10-part3-the-conceited-song/19/) — These are some of the milder verses.» (milder = less extreme) - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/63-willows-ch10-part3-the-conceited-song/20/) — «He sang as he walked, and he walked as he sang, and got more inflated every minute.» (inflated = puffed up, like a balloon) - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/63-willows-ch10-part3-the-conceited-song/21/) — On the high road he sees «a speck that turned into a dot and then into a blob, and then into something very familiar». - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/63-willows-ch10-part3-the-conceited-song/23/) — It is the very car he stole from the yard of the Red Lion Hotel, with the very same people he had watched at lunch in the coffee-room. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/63-willows-ch10-part3-the-conceited-song/24/) — Toad groans: «What did I want to go strutting about the country for, singing conceited songs... instead of hiding till nightfall and slipping home quietly by back ways!» - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/63-willows-ch10-part3-the-conceited-song/25/) — The gentlemen say: «Here is a poor old thing—a washerwoman apparently—who has fainted in the road!» They lift him into the car and prop him up with soft cushions, meaning to take her on to the nearest village, where she probably has friends. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/63-willows-ch10-part3-the-conceited-song/26/) — Toad asks to sit «on the front seat there, beside the driver, where I could get the fresh air full in my face»; the gentleman says «What a very sensible woman!» - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/63-willows-ch10-part3-the-conceited-song/27/) — In the front seat the old cravings rise up again: «It is fate!» he said to himself. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/63-willows-ch10-part3-the-conceited-song/28/) — «Why strive? why struggle?» (strive = try hard) - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 2: The Further Adventures of Toad (into the canal, the stolen horse and «a shilling a leg»)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/62-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 4: The Further Adventures of Toad (the horse-pond, the chase and a face in the bank)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/64-willows-ch10-part4-into-the-horse-pond/) - ↑ back to [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/)