The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 2: Toad's Adventures (the washerwoman's dress), sentence 1
Her plan: the aunt does the prisoners' washing, taking it out on Monday morning and bringing it back on Friday evening; if Toad pays her well, she will give him her dress and bonnet, and he can walk out of the castle as the washerwoman.
Who acts: aunt, plan, Toad, prisoners · What happens: do, take out, bring back, pay, give, walk out · To what, where: washing, aunt, dress, Toad, castle
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 (aunt, plan, Toad, prisoners), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 plan | nmod:poss |
| 2 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 pays | nsubj:outer |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 does | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 aunt | det |
| 5 | aunt | aunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 does | nsubj |
| 6 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 pays | parataxis |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 prisoners | det |
| 8 | prisoners | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 washing | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 8 prisoners | case |
| 10 | washing | washing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 does | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 taking | punct |
| 12 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 does | advcl |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 taking | obj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 taking | compound:prt |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 morning | case |
| 16 | Monday | Monday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 morning | compound |
| 17 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 taking | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 bringing | cc |
| 19 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 taking | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 bringing | obj |
| 21 | back | back | ADV | _ | 19 bringing | advmod |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 evening | case |
| 23 | Friday | Friday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 evening | compound |
| 24 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bringing | obl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 does | punct |
| 26 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 28 pays | mark |
| 27 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 pays | nsubj |
| 28 | pays | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 pays | obj |
| 30 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 pays | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 well | punct |
| 32 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 give | nsubj |
| 33 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 give | aux |
| 34 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 pays | parataxis |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 give | iobj |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 dress | nmod:poss |
| 37 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 give | obj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 bonnet | cc |
| 39 | bonnet | bonnet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 dress | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 walk | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 walk | cc |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 walk | nsubj |
| 43 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 walk | aux |
| 44 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 give | conj |
| 45 | out | out | ADP | _ | 48 castle | case |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 castle | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 castle | det |
| 48 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 walk | obl |
| 49 | as | as | ADP | _ | 51 washerwoman | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 washerwoman | det |
| 51 | washerwoman | washerwoman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 walk | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 plan | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | the aunt | the prisoners's washing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent washing=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | take out | gerund | the aunt not said here | washing | morning | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | bring back | gerund | the aunt not said here | washing | evening | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 4 | pay | present | aunt's plan | aunt | well property | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent her=Asset | |||
| 5 | give | future | aunt | aunt's dress and bonnet | Toad | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient dress=Theme | |||
| 6 | walk out | can | Toad | the castle | as the washerwoman | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Attribute | |||
| 7 | plan | aunt | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | wash | the prisoners | nom washing «act 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.
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:1.
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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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