The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 5: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (Mole the washerwoman and the badgers that never were), sentence 1

He found Toad's old washerwoman dress drying by the kitchen fire, put it on with the bonnet and shawl, and walked boldly up to the sentries at Toad Hall: «Good morning, gentlemen!

Who acts: Mole, old washerwoman dress · What happens: find, dry, put on, walk · To what, where: old washerwoman dress, dress, sentries

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 5: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (Mole the washerwoman and the badgers that never were)» 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 (Mole, old washerwoman dress), 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 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 dress	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Toad	case
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dress	amod
6	washerwoman	washerwoman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dress	compound
7	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obj
8	drying	dry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 found	xcomp
9	by	by	ADP	_	12 fire	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fire	det
11	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fire	compound
12	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 drying	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 put	punct
14	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 found	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 put	obj
16	on	on	ADP	_	14 put	compound:prt
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 bonnet	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bonnet	det
19	bonnet	bonnet	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 put	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 shawl	cc
21	shawl	shawl	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bonnet	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 walked	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 walked	cc
24	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 found	conj
25	boldly	boldly	ADV	_	24 walked	advmod
26	up	up	ADP	_	29 sentries	case
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 sentries	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 sentries	det
29	sentries	sentry	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 walked	obl
30	at	at	ADP	_	32 Hall	case
31	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Hall	compound
32	Hall	Hall	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 sentries	nmod
33	:	:	PUNCT	_	38 gentlemen	punct
34	«	«	PUNCT	_	36 morning	punct
35	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 morning	amod
36	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 gentlemen	compound
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 morning	punct
38	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 found	vocative
39	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	past	Mole	Toad's old washerwoman dress		morning gentlemen vocative	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent dress=Attribute clause=Theme
2	dry	gerund	Toad's old washerwoman dress not said here			by the kitchen fire	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	put on	past	Mole not said here	dress		with the bonnet and shawl	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal
4	walk	past	Mole not said here		the sentries at Toad Hall	boldly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up sentry=Trajectory

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:069-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole.lesson:1.

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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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