The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 2: Toad's Adventures (the washerwoman's dress), sentence 19

The aunt asks to be «gagged and bound and dumped down in a corner», so she can say she was attacked and keep her job; the book calls this a «not very convincing artifice» (artifice = trick).

Who acts: aunt, book · What happens: ask, be, gag, bound, dump down, say · To what, where: corner, aunt, job, this · 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 (aunt, book), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 aunt	det
2	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asks	nsubj
3	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	7 gagged	mark
5	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 asks	xcomp
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 gagged	punct
7	gagged	gag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 be	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 bound	cc
9	bound	bound	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 gagged	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 dumped	cc
11	dumped	dump	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 gagged	conj
12	down	down	ADP	_	11 dumped	compound:prt
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 corner	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 corner	det
15	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dumped	obl
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 corner	punct
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 say	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	21 say	advmod
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 say	nsubj
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 say	aux
21	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 asks	advcl
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 attacked	nsubj:pass
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 attacked	aux:pass
24	attacked	attack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 say	ccomp
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 keep	cc
26	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 attacked	conj
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 job	nmod:poss
28	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 keep	obj
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 calls	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 book	det
31	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 calls	nsubj
32	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 asks	parataxis
33	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 calls	obj
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 artifice	det
35	«	«	PUNCT	_	39 artifice	punct
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 convincing	advmod
37	very	very	ADV	_	38 convincing	advmod
38	convincing	convincing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 artifice	amod
39	artifice	artifice	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 calls	obj
40	»	»	PUNCT	_	39 artifice	punct
41	(	(	PUNCT	_	42 artifice	punct
42	artifice	artifice	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 artifice	appos
43	=	=	PUNCT	_	44 trick	punct
44	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 artifice	conj
45	)	)	PUNCT	_	42 artifice	punct
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 asks	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	the aunt			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	be not said to happen	infinitive	the aunt not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	gag in a quote	past	the aunt not said here			vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
4	bound in a quote	participle	the aunt not said here			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	dump down in a quote	participle	the aunt not said here		a corner	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in corner=Trajectory
6	say speech: assert	can	aunt			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	attack	past · passive		aunt		vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
8	keep	infinitive		aunt's job		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Theme
9	call	present	the book	this		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme artifice=Result
10	job		aunt			nom job «act 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, 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:19.

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): R1-cc-next ×3, R5-strong ×3, 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.

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