The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 2: The Further Adventures of Toad (into the canal, the stolen horse and «a shilling a leg»), sentence 20

The barge-woman's last joke: «Put yourself through your mangle, washerwoman, and iron your face and crimp it, and you'll pass for quite a decent-looking Toad!» (a mangle = a machine with rollers for squeezing water out of wet washing; to crimp = to press into little waves)

Who acts: you, barge woman · What happens: put, iron, crimp, pass, look, press · To what, where: yourself, mangle, face, little waves · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 2: The Further Adventures of Toad (into the canal, the stolen horse and «a shilling a leg»)» 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 (you, barge woman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

narrate

voice

narrator

polarity

none

teacher

kept the draft

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.

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