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title: «Echo» comes from a nymph called Echo who could only repeat the last… — Pan, panic and Ulysses: the old myths and old wo… · tree and pragmatics
description: «Echo» comes from a nymph called Echo who could only repeat the last words others said; «cereal» comes from Ceres, the Roman goddess of grain; January is named after Janus, the Roman god of doorways with two faces. Who acts: Echo, nymph, others, cereal. A sentence of the lesson «Pan, panic and Ulyss
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# Pan, panic and Ulysses: the old myths and old words inside «The Wind in the Willows», sentence 17

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«Echo» comes from a nymph called Echo who could only repeat the last words others said; «cereal» comes from Ceres, the Roman goddess of grain; January is named after Janus, the Roman god of doorways with two faces.

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**Who acts:** Echo, nymph, others, cereal · **What happens:** come, call, repeat, say, name · **To what, where:** nymph, last words, Ceres, January · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Pan, panic and Ulysses: the old myths and old words inside «The Wind in the Willows»» of the language 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 (Echo, nymph, others, cereal), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:language:043-pan-panic-and-ulysses-the-old-myths-and-old-words-inside-the-wind-in-the-willows.lesson:17
# text = «Echo» comes from a nymph called Echo who could only repeat the last words others said; «cereal» comes from Ceres, the Roman goddess of grain; January is named after Janus, the Roman god of doorways with two faces.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = language
# lesson = 043-pan-panic-and-ulysses-the-old-myths-and-old-words-inside-the-wind-in-the-willows.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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Echo	echo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	nymph	nymph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	Echo	echo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	xcomp	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
11	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	repeat	repeat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:acl:relcl
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
17	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:NNS:Number=Plur|PronType=Ind
18	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
21	cereal	cereal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
23	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	Roman	roman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	goddess	goddess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
36	after	after	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Janus	Janus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	Roman	roman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=41:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
41	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	appos	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=37:appos|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	doorways	doorway	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nmod	_	_
44	with	with	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	46	nummod	_	_
46	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nmod	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **come** | present | Echo |  |  |  |  | from a nymph | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from nymph=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **call** | participle |  | a nymph *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **repeat** | could | a nymph | the last words |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Eventuality |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | others | the last words *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
| 5 | **come** | present | cereal |  |  | Ceres |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from ceres=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **name** | present · passive |  | January |  |  | after Janus |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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 ×1, R7-rel-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.

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