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title: Rhythm can match the meaning: Robert Louis Stevenson's train poem go… — Poetry: rhyme and rhythm · tree and pragmatics
description: Rhythm can match the meaning: Robert Louis Stevenson's train poem goes "Faster than fairies, faster than witches, / Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches", and the quick beat rattles along like wheels on a track, while a sad poem is read slowly and softly. Who acts: Rhythm, train poem, quick beat. 
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# Poetry: rhyme and rhythm, sentence 2

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Rhythm can match the meaning: Robert Louis Stevenson's train poem goes "Faster than fairies, faster than witches, / Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches", and the quick beat rattles along like wheels on a track, while a sad poem is read slowly and softly.

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**Who acts:** Rhythm, train poem, quick beat · **What happens:** match, go, rattle, read · **To what, where:** meaning, sad poem

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Poetry: rhyme and rhythm» of the english 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 (Rhythm, train poem, quick beat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:045-poetry-rhyme-and-rhythm.lesson:2
# text = Rhythm can match the meaning: Robert Louis Stevenson's train poem goes "Faster than fairies, faster than witches, / Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches", and the quick beat rattles along like wheels on a track, while a sad poem is read slowly and softly.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 045-poetry-rhyme-and-rhythm.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Rhythm	rhythm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	match	match	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	meaning	meaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Robert	Robert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
8	Louis	Louis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
9	Stevenson	Stevenson	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	_
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	train	train	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:ccomp
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Faster	fast	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	advcl	_	_
16	than	than	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	faster	fast	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	parataxis	_	_
20	than	than	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	witches	witch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	/	/	SYM	,	_	24	cc	_	_
24	Bridges	bridge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	hedges	hedge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	ditches	ditch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	_
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	beat	beat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	rattles	rattle	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
38	along	along	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=40:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
39	like	like	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	wheels	wheel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	_
41	on	on	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	track	track	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
45	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
49	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	50	aux:pass	_	_
50	read	read	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advcl
51	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	softly	softly	ADV	RB	_	51	conj	_	_
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **match** | can | Rhythm | the meaning |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | present | Robert Louis Stevenson's train poem |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **rattle** | present | the quick beat |  |  |  |  | like wheels on a track; along *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **read** | present · passive |  | a sad poem |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |

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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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**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 ×3, R7-rel-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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