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title: One morning the gaoler's daughter is thoughtful: «I have an aunt who… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 2: T… · tree and pragmatics
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 2: Toad's Adventures (the washerwoman's dress), sentence 0

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One morning the gaoler's daughter is thoughtful: «I have an aunt who is a washerwoman.» Toad, not really listening, jokes rudely that he has several aunts who ought to be washerwomen, and she tells him he talks too much.

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**Who acts:** daughter, I, aunt, Toad, several aunts, she · **What happens:** be, have, not listen, joke, ought, tell · **To what, where:** aunt, washerwoman, several aunts, washerwomen, Toad · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (daughter, I, aunt, Toad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:053-willows-ch8-part2-the-washerwoman.lesson:0
# text = One morning the gaoler's daughter is thoughtful: «I have an aunt who is a washerwoman.» Toad, not really listening, jokes rudely that he has several aunts who ought to be washerwomen, and she tells him he talks too much.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 053-willows-ch8-part2-the-washerwoman.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	gaoler	gaoler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	thoughtful	thoughtful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	aunt	aunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	washerwoman	washerwoman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:appos
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
20	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:::_
21	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
24	really	really	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	listening	listen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	acl:relcl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	jokes	joke	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj
28	rudely	rudely	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	ccomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:advcl
32	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	aunts	aunt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
34	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
35	ought	ought	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
37	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	cop	_	_
38	washerwomen	washerwoman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	xcomp	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=27:conj
43	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obj	_	_
44	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	talks	talk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	ccomp	_	_
46	too	too	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
47	much	much	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=45:obj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the gaoler's daughter |  |  |  | morning | thoughtful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present | I | a aunt |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aunt=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | a aunt | a washerwoman |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **listen** | gerund | Toad *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **joke** *speech: other* | present | Toad |  |  |  |  | rudely *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **have** | present | Toad | several aunts |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aunt=Patient |
| 7 | **ought** | past | several aunts |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **is a** | to-infinitive | several aunts *not said here* | washerwomen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | she |  | Toad |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 10 | **talk** | present | Toad |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:0`.

**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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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