The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 1: The Further Adventures of Toad (free, the canal and the barge-woman's washing), sentence 12

He says he loves washing and is never so happy as with both arms in the wash-tub — so the barge-woman gives him a heap of her washing to do.

Who acts: Toad, barge woman, woman · What happens: say, love, not be, give, do, wash · To what, where: washing, heap, Toad · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 1: The Further Adventures of Toad (free, the canal and the barge-woman's washing)» 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 (Toad, barge woman, woman), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 loves	nsubj
4	loves	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
5	washing	washing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 loves	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 happy	cc
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 happy	cop
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 happy	advmod
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 happy	advmod
10	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 loves	conj
11	as	as	ADP	_	14 arms	case
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 arms	case
13	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	14 arms	det
14	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 happy	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	19 tub	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 tub	det
17	wash	wash	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tub	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 wash	punct
19	tub	tub	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 arms	nmod
20	—	-	PUNCT	_	26 gives	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	26 gives	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 woman	det
23	barge	barge	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 woman	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 barge	punct
25	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 gives	nsubj
26	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	conj
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 gives	iobj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 heap	det
29	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 gives	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 washing	case
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 washing	nmod:poss
32	washing	washing	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 heap	nmod
33	to	to	PART	_	34 do	mark
34	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 gives	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Toad				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	love	present	Toad	washing			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer washing=Stimulus
3	not is	present	Toad not said here			as both arms in the wash tub; happy property	tree rules
4	give	present	the barge woman	a heap of woman's washing	Toad		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient heap=Theme
5	do	to-infinitive	the barge woman not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	wash		woman				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:061-willows-ch10-part1-the-barge-woman.lesson:12.

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): 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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