The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 2: Toad's Adventures (the washerwoman's dress), sentence 22

On the way out the warders «chaff» him (tease him) with jokes; the book's jokes about men and a «widow woman» come from old ideas about men and women.

Who acts: jokes, book · What happens: tease, come, joke · To what, where: book, old ideas

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 (jokes, 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 way	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 way	det
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 chaff	obl
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 way	compound:prt
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 warders	det
6	warders	warder	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 chaff	nsubj
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 chaff	punct
8	chaff	chaff	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 chaff	punct
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 chaff	obj
11	(	(	PUNCT	_	12 tease	punct
12	tease	tease	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 chaff	parataxis
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 tease	obj
14	)	)	PUNCT	_	12 tease	punct
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 jokes	case
16	jokes	joke	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 chaff	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 jokes	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 book	det
19	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 jokes	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 book	case
21	jokes	joke	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 come	nsubj
22	about	about	ADP	_	23 men	case
23	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 jokes	nmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 woman	cc
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 woman	det
26	«	«	PUNCT	_	28 woman	punct
27	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 woman	compound
28	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 men	conj
29	»	»	PUNCT	_	28 woman	punct
30	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 chaff	conj
31	from	from	ADP	_	33 ideas	case
32	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 ideas	amod
33	ideas	idea	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 come	obl
34	about	about	ADP	_	35 men	case
35	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 ideas	nmod
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 women	cc
37	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 men	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 chaff	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tease	infinitive		book			vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	come	infinitive	the book's jokes about men and a widow woman		old ideas about men and women		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from idea=Initial_Location
3	joke		the book			about men and a widow woman	nom joke «communication intransitive»: poss=agent about=obl

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:22.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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