The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr. Toad (the car in the inn-yard, twenty years, and the deepest dungeon), sentence 15

«All Nature joining in a chorus of approval to the song of self-praise that his own heart was singing to him, he almost danced along the road in his satisfaction and conceit.»

Who acts: Nature, own heart, Toad, self praise · What happens: join, sing, dance, chorus, satisfy · To what, where: chorus, self praise, Toad, Nature, satisfaction, approval

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr. Toad (the car in the inn-yard, twenty years, and the deepest dungeon)» 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 (Nature, own heart, Toad, self praise), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	28 danced	punct
2	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 Nature	det
3	Nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 danced	obl
4	joining	join	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 Nature	acl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 chorus	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 chorus	det
7	chorus	chorus	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 joining	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 approval	case
9	approval	approval	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chorus	nmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 song	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 song	det
12	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 joining	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 praise	case
14	self	self	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 praise	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 self	punct
16	praise	praise	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 song	nmod
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 singing	obj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 heart	nmod:poss
19	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 heart	amod
20	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 singing	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 singing	aux
22	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 praise	acl:relcl
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 singing	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Nature	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 danced	nsubj
27	almost	almost	ADV	_	28 danced	advmod
28	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
29	along	along	ADP	_	31 road	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 road	det
31	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 danced	obl
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 satisfaction	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 satisfaction	nmod:poss
34	satisfaction	satisfaction	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 danced	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 conceit	cc
36	conceit	conceit	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 satisfaction	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 danced	punct
38	»	»	PUNCT	_	28 danced	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	join in a quote	gerund	all Nature not said here			a chorus of approval	to the song of self praise	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient to song=Co-Patient
2	sing speech: express in a quote	past · progressive	Toad's own heart	self praise	Toad			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Topic to he=Recipient
3	dance in a quote	past	Toad	all Nature		Toad's satisfaction and conceit	along the road; almost property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along road=Location
4	chorus in a quote			approval				nom chorus «event transitive»: of=patient
5	sing in a quote		self praise					nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent
6	satisfy in a quote		Toad					nom satisfaction «feeling transitive»: 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.

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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. 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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