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title: The girl «hook-and-eyes» him into the gown (fastens it with little h… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 2: T… · tree and pragmatics
description: The girl «hook-and-eyes» him into the gown (fastens it with little hooks), laughing: «You're the very image of her ... only I'm sure you never looked half so respectable in all your life before.» Who acts: girl, You, aunt. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 2: Toad
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 2: Toad's Adventures (the washerwoman's dress), sentence 21

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The girl «hook-and-eyes» him into the gown (fastens it with little hooks), laughing: «You're the very image of her ... only I'm sure you never looked half so respectable in all your life before.»

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**Who acts:** girl, You, aunt · **What happens:** hook, eye, fasten, laugh, be, not look · **To what, where:** book, gown, job, very image · **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 (girl, You, aunt), 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:21
# text = The girl «hook-and-eyes» him into the gown (fastens it with little hooks), laughing: «You're the very image of her ... only I'm sure you never looked half so respectable in all your life before.»
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
4	hook	hook	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	_
8	eyes	eye	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	gown	gown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
15	fastens	fasten	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	hooks	hook	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
20	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
22	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	advcl	_	_
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
24	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	_
25	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
26	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	very	very	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
29	image	image	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:obj
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nmod	_	_
32	...	...	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	only	only	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
34	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
36	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	parataxis	_	_
37	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
38	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	39	advmod	_	_
39	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	ccomp	_	_
40	half	half	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	39	advmod	_	_
41	so	so	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	respectable	respectable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	xcomp	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	46	det:predet	_	_
45	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
47	before	before	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	_
49	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hook** *in a quote* | present | the girl | book |  | the gown |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **eye** *in a quote* | present | the girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **fasten** | present |  | job |  |  |  | with little hooks | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent it=Patient with hook=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **laugh** | gerund | the girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | You | the very image |  |  |  | of girl | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present | aunt |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **not** **look** *in a quote* | past | you |  |  |  |  | before, half, respectable *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:21`.

**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): R7-rel-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.

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

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