--- title: «He sang as he walked, and he walked as he sang, and got more inflat… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 3: The… · tree and pragmatics description: «He sang as he walked, and he walked as he sang, and got more inflated every minute.» (inflated = puffed up, like a balloon) Who acts: book. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 3: The Further Adventures of Toad (the most conceited song and the very same motor-car)» of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/63-willows-ch10-part3-the-conceited-song/20/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, pa…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/63-willows-ch10-part3-the-conceited-song/) / 20 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 3: The Further Adventures of Toad (the most conceited song and the very same motor-car), sentence 20 «He sang as he walked, and he walked as he sang, and got more inflated every minute.» (inflated = puffed up, like a balloon) **Who acts:** book · **What happens:** sing, walk, get, inflate, puff up · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 3: The Further Adventures of Toad (the most conceited song and the very same motor-car)» 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 (book), 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:20 # text = «He sang as he walked, and he walked as he sang, and got more inflated every minute.» (inflated = puffed up, like a balloon) # 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 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 sang sing VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 as as SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 11 as as SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 sang sing VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj 17 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 18 advmod _ _ 18 inflated inflate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 xcomp _ _ 19 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 20 det _ _ 20 minute minute NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 22 » » PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 23 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 24 inflated inflate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 dep _ _ 25 = = SYM SYM _ 24 punct _ _ 26 puffed puff VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 27 up up ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 like like ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 balloon balloon NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 parataxis _ _ 32 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 31 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sing** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | book | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **walk** *in a quote* | past | book | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **walk** *in a quote* | past | book | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **sing** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | book | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | | 5 | **get** *in a quote* | past | book *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 6 | **inflate** *in a quote* | participle | book *not said here* | | | | minute | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **inflate** | participle | | | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 8 | **puff up** | participle | | | | | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | 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:20`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, pa…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/63-willows-ch10-part3-the-conceited-song/19/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, pa…, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/63-willows-ch10-part3-the-conceited-song/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/63-willows-ch10-part3-the-conceited-song/)