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title: «No, not one little song,» replied the Rat firmly, though his heart… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: «No, not one little song,» replied the Rat firmly, though his heart bled. Who acts: Rat, heart. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: The Return of Ulysses (the invitations, «SPEECH BY TOAD» and «not one little song»)» of the books course of Mova's primary school wi
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: The Return of Ulysses (the invitations, «SPEECH BY TOAD» and «not one little song»), sentence 35

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«No, not one little song,» replied the Rat firmly, though his heart bled.

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**Who acts:** Rat, heart · **What happens:** reply, bleed

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: The Return of Ulysses (the invitations, «SPEECH BY TOAD» and «not one little song»)» 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 (Rat, heart), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:072-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs.lesson:35
# text = «No, not one little song,» replied the Rat firmly, though his heart bled.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 072-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs.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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
2	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	7	discourse	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
10	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:obj
13	firmly	firmly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	bled	bleed	VERB	VBD	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the Rat |  |  |  |  | firmly *property* | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bleed** | past | SONG's heart |  |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |

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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.

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**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:072-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs.lesson:35`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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/).

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