--- title: The aunt asks to be «gagged and bound and dumped down in a corner»,… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 2: T… · tree and pragmatics description: The aunt asks to be «gagged and bound and dumped down in a corner», so she can say she was attacked and keep her job; the book calls this a «not very convincing artifice» (artifice = trick). Who acts: aunt, book. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (aunt, book), 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:19 # text = The aunt asks to be «gagged and bound and dumped down in a corner», so she can say she was attacked and keep her job; the book calls this a «not very convincing artifice» (artifice = trick). # 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): R1-cc-next ×3, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 aunt aunt NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:mark 5 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 « « PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 7 gagged gag VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc 9 bound bound VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:conj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc 11 dumped dump VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 down down ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 corner corner NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 16 » » PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 19 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 22 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 attacked attack VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 ccomp _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=24:cc 26 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ _ 27 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 calls call VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 33 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 32 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:det 35 « « PUNCT `` _ 39 punct _ _ 36 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 38 advmod _ _ 37 very very ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 convincing convincing ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 artifice artifice NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 40 » » PUNCT '' _ 39 punct _ _ 41 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 42 punct _ _ 42 artifice artifice NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 appos _ _ 43 = = PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 44 trick trick NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 conj _ _ 45 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 42 punct _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | the aunt | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **be** *not said to happen* | infinitive | the aunt *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **gag** *in a quote* | past | the aunt *not said here* | | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **bound** *in a quote* | participle | the aunt *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **dump down** *in a quote* | participle | the aunt *not said here* | | | a corner | | | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in corner=Trajectory | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | can | aunt | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **attack** | past · passive | | aunt | | | | | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 8 | **keep** | infinitive | | aunt's job | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Theme | | 9 | **call** | present | the book | this | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme artifice=Result | | 10 | **job** | | aunt | | | | | | nom job «act intransitive»: 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](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:19`. **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): R1-cc-next ×3, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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