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title: Another verse: «Bang! go the drums! / The trumpeters are tooting and… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 4: Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Another verse: «Bang! go the drums! / The trumpeters are tooting and the soldiers are saluting, / And the cannon they are shooting and the motor-cars are hooting, / As the—Hero—comes!» It ends: «For it's Toad's—great—day!» Who acts: verse, soldiers, motor cars, Hero. A sentence of the lesson «The Wi
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 4: The Return of Ulysses (Toad's last little song, an altered Toad, and the end of the book), sentence 16

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Another verse: «Bang! go the drums! / The trumpeters are tooting and the soldiers are saluting, / And the cannon they are shooting and the motor-cars are hooting, / As the—Hero—comes!» It ends: «For it's Toad's—great—day!»

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**Who acts:** verse, soldiers, motor cars, Hero · **What happens:** bang, go, toot, salute, shoot, hoot · **To what, where:** drums, cannon

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 4: The Return of Ulysses (Toad's last little song, an altered Toad, and the end of the book)» 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 (verse, soldiers, motor cars, Hero), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:073-willows-ch12-part4-an-altered-toad.lesson:16
# text = Another verse: «Bang! go the drums! / The trumpeters are tooting and the soldiers are saluting, / And the cannon they are shooting and the motor-cars are hooting, / As the—Hero—comes!» It ends: «For it's Toad's—great—day!»
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 073-willows-ch12-part4-an-altered-toad.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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	verse	verse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Bang	bang	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct
7	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	drums	drum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
11	/	/	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
12	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	trumpeters	trumpeter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	tooting	toot	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	saluting	salute	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
22	/	/	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	cannon	cannon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	shooting	shoot	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	motor	motor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	_
33	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	_
34	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	hooting	hoot	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	conj	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	/	/	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	As	as	ADP	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
41	Hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
42	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
43	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
44	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	43	punct	_	_
45	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	47	punct	_	_
46	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	ends	end	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	advcl	_	_
48	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	47	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=43:punct
49	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	43	punct	_	_
50	For	for	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obl	_	_
52	's	's	PART	POS	_	43	case	_	_
53	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	58	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=58:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
54	's	's	PART	POS	_	53	case	_	_
55	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	58	punct	_	_
56	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
57	—	—	PUNCT	:	_	58	punct	_	_
58	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
59	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	43	punct	_	_
60	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:.:_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bang** *in a quote* | infinitive | another verse *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | another verse *not said here* | the drums |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location drum=Theme |
| 3 | **toot** *in a quote* | present · progressive | another verse |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **salute** *in a quote* | present · progressive | the soldiers |  |  |  |  |  | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **shoot** *in a quote* | present · progressive | soldiers *= soldier* | the cannon |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cannon=Theme |
| 6 | **hoot** *in a quote* | present · progressive | the motor cars |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **come** *in a quote* | present | the Hero |  |  |  | day | for verse | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **end** | present | verse |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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:073-willows-ch12-part4-an-altered-toad.lesson:16`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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