--- title: The song begins: «The world has held great Heroes, / As history-book… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 3: The… · tree and pragmatics description: 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!» Who acts: song, world, history books. 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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 (song, world, history books), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:063-willows-ch10-part3-the-conceited-song.lesson:15 # text = 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!» # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 063-willows-ch10-part3-the-conceited-song.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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 begins begin VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 5 « « PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 6 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 held hold VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis 10 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 Heroes hero NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 13 / / SYM SYM _ 9 punct _ _ 14 As as SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 15 history history NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ _ 17 books book NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 18 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 showed show VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 / / PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 But but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 acl _ _ 28 down down ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 fame fame NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 / / SYM , _ 3 punct _ _ 32 Compared compare VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 acl _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 32 obl _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=34:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 37 ! ! PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 38 » » PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **begin** | present | the song | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **hold** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the world | great Heroes | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hero=Theme | | 3 | **show** *in a quote* | present · perfect | history books | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **go down** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the world *not said here* | | | | | to fame; down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 5 | **compare** *in a quote* | participle | | fame *not said here* | | | | with fame | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with that=Co-Patient | 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:063-willows-ch10-part3-the-conceited-song.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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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