The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 2: Toad's Adventures (the washerwoman's dress), sentence 4
Next evening the aunt comes; for some gold sovereigns she hands over a cotton print gown, an apron, a shawl and a rusty black bonnet, and asks to be tied up and gagged, so it will look as if she was attacked.
Who acts: aunt, it · What happens: come, hand over, ask, tie up, gag, look · To what, where: print gown, aunt
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, it), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 evening | amod |
| 2 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 comes | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 aunt | det |
| 4 | aunt | aunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 comes | nsubj |
| 5 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 hands | punct |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 sovereigns | case |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 sovereigns | det |
| 9 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sovereigns | compound |
| 10 | sovereigns | sovereign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 hands | obl |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 hands | nsubj |
| 12 | hands | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 comes | parataxis |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 hands | compound:prt |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 gown | det |
| 15 | cotton | cotton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 print | compound |
| 16 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gown | compound | ||
| 17 | gown | gown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hands | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 apron | punct |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 apron | det |
| 20 | apron | apron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gown | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 shawl | punct |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 shawl | det |
| 23 | shawl | shawl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gown | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 bonnet | cc |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 bonnet | det |
| 26 | rusty | rusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 bonnet | amod |
| 27 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 bonnet | amod |
| 28 | bonnet | bonnet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gown | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 asks | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 asks | cc |
| 31 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 hands | conj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 tied | mark |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 tied | aux:pass |
| 34 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 asks | xcomp |
| 35 | up | up | ADP | _ | 34 tied | compound:prt |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 gagged | cc |
| 37 | gagged | gag | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 tied | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 look | punct |
| 39 | so | so | ADV | _ | 42 look | advmod |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 look | nsubj |
| 41 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 look | aux |
| 42 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 gagged | conj |
| 43 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 47 attacked | mark |
| 44 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 43 as | fixed |
| 45 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 attacked | nsubj:pass |
| 46 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 attacked | aux:pass |
| 47 | attacked | attack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 look | advcl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | the aunt | evening | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hand over | present | aunt | a print gown and a apron and a shawl and a rusty black bonnet | for some gold sovereigns | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gown=Theme | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | present | aunt not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | tie up not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | aunt not said here | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle» | |||||
| 5 | gag | participle | aunt not said here | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | look | future | it | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | attack | past · passive | aunt | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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:4.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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