--- title: Toad's song boasts: «The clever men at Oxford / Know all that there… — Off with her head and the finest house on the ri… · tree and pragmatics description: Toad's song boasts: «The clever men at Oxford / Know all that there is to be knowed. / But they none of them know one half as much / As intelligent Mr. Who acts: song, clever men, men, Toad. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (song, clever men, men, Toad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:054-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad.lesson:17 # text = Toad's song boasts: «The clever men at Oxford / Know all that there is to be knowed. / But they none of them know one half as much / As intelligent Mr. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 054-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 boasts boast VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 6 « « PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 7 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 clever clever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 Oxford Oxford PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 / / PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct 13 Know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 14 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 13 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:det:predet|HaikuPos=DET:PDT:PronType=Tot 15 that that SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 17 expl _ _ 17 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:acl:relcl 18 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 19 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 knowed knowe VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 ccomp _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ _ 22 / / PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 But but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 25 none none PRON NN PronType=Neg 28 nsubj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nmod _ _ 28 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 29 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 30 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 28 obj _ _ 31 as as ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 32 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 nmod _ _ 33 / / PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 34 As as ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 intelligent intelligent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 Mr. Mr. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:conj ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **boast** *speech: other* | present | Toad's song | | | | | | vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **know** *in a quote* | infinitive | the clever men at Oxford | all | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **be** *in a quote* | present | | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **knowe** *in a quote* | to-infinitive · passive | | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **know** *in a quote* | present | men *= man* | one half much | | | | as intelligent Mr. | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer half=Stimulus as mr.=Attribute | | 6 | **sing** | | Toad | | | | | | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:language:054-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad.lesson:17`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Off with her head and the finest house…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/54-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad/16/) - next →: [Off with her head and the finest house…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/54-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/54-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad/)