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title: Her plan: the aunt does the prisoners' washing, taking it out on Mon… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 2: T… · tree and pragmatics
description: Her plan: the aunt does the prisoners' washing, taking it out on Monday morning and bringing it back on Friday evening; if Toad pays her well, she will give him her dress and bonnet, and he can walk out of the castle as the washerwoman. Who acts: aunt, plan, Toad, prisoners. A sentence of the lesson
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 2: Toad's Adventures (the washerwoman's dress), sentence 1

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Her plan: the aunt does the prisoners' washing, taking it out on Monday morning and bringing it back on Friday evening; if Toad pays her well, she will give him her dress and bonnet, and he can walk out of the castle as the washerwoman.

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**Who acts:** aunt, plan, Toad, prisoners · **What happens:** do, take out, bring back, pay, give, walk out · **To what, where:** washing, aunt, dress, Toad, castle

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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 (aunt, plan, Toad, prisoners), 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:1
# text = Her plan: the aunt does the prisoners' washing, taking it out on Monday morning and bringing it back on Friday evening; if Toad pays her well, she will give him her dress and bonnet, and he can walk out of the castle as the washerwoman.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj:outer	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	aunt	aunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	parataxis	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	'	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	washing	washing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:parataxis
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	Monday	Monday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	back	back	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	Friday	Friday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
26	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
28	pays	pay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
29	her	her	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
32	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	parataxis	_	_
35	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	iobj	_	_
36	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	bonnet	bonnet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
42	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
43	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	conj	_	_
45	out	out	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
49	as	as	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	washerwoman	washerwoman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=48:nmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28: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 | **do** | present | the aunt | the prisoners's washing |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent washing=Eventuality |
| 2 | **take out** | gerund | the aunt *not said here* | washing |  |  | morning |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **bring back** | gerund | the aunt *not said here* | washing |  |  | evening |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **pay** | present | aunt's plan | aunt |  |  |  | well *property* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent her=Asset |
| 5 | **give** | future | aunt | aunt's dress and bonnet | Toad |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient dress=Theme |
| 6 | **walk out** | can | Toad | the castle |  |  |  | as the washerwoman | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Attribute |
| 7 | **plan** |  | aunt |  |  |  |  |  | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 8 | **wash** |  | the prisoners |  |  |  |  |  | nom washing «act transitive»: poss=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: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, R6-punct-agree ×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.

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

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