The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 2: Toad's Adventures (the washerwoman's dress), sentence 0
One morning the gaoler's daughter is thoughtful: «I have an aunt who is a washerwoman.» Toad, not really listening, jokes rudely that he has several aunts who ought to be washerwomen, and she tells him he talks too much.
Who acts: daughter, I, aunt, Toad, several aunts, she · What happens: be, have, not listen, joke, ought, tell · To what, where: aunt, washerwoman, several aunts, washerwomen, Toad · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 2: Toad's Adventures (the washerwoman's dress)» 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 (daughter, I, aunt, Toad), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 morning | nummod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thoughtful | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 gaoler | det |
| 4 | gaoler | gaoler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 gaoler | case |
| 6 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thoughtful | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 thoughtful | cop |
| 8 | thoughtful | thoughtful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 10 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 have | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 thoughtful | parataxis |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 aunt | det |
| 14 | aunt | aunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 have | obj |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 washerwoman | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 washerwoman | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 washerwoman | det |
| 18 | washerwoman | washerwoman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 aunt | acl:relcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 thoughtful | punct |
| 20 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 21 Toad | punct |
| 21 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 jokes | nsubj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 listening | punct |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 listening | advmod |
| 24 | really | really | ADV | _ | 25 listening | advmod |
| 25 | listening | listen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 Toad | acl:relcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 jokes | punct |
| 27 | jokes | joke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 thoughtful | parataxis |
| 28 | rudely | rudely | ADV | _ | 27 jokes | advmod |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 has | mark |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 has | nsubj |
| 31 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 jokes | ccomp |
| 32 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 aunts | amod |
| 33 | aunts | aunt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 has | obj |
| 34 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 ought | nsubj |
| 35 | ought | ought | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 aunts | acl:relcl |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 washerwomen | mark |
| 37 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 38 washerwomen | cop |
| 38 | washerwomen | washerwoman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 ought | xcomp |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 tells | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 tells | cc |
| 41 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 tells | nsubj |
| 42 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 thoughtful | conj |
| 43 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 tells | obj |
| 44 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 talks | nsubj |
| 45 | talks | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 tells | ccomp |
| 46 | too | too | ADV | _ | 47 much | advmod |
| 47 | much | much | ADV | _ | 45 talks | advmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 thoughtful | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the gaoler's daughter | morning | thoughtful property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | I | a aunt | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aunt=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | a aunt | a washerwoman | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not listen | gerund | Toad not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | joke speech: other | present | Toad | rudely property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | have | present | Toad | several aunts | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aunt=Patient | ||||
| 7 | ought | past | several aunts | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | is a | to-infinitive | several aunts not said here | washerwomen | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | tell speech: assert | present | she | Toad | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 10 | talk | present | Toad | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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, 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:053-willows-ch8-part2-the-washerwoman.lesson:0.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-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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