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title: Toad of Toad Hall, dressed as a washerwoman! — but when the girl sna… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 2: T… · tree and pragmatics
description: Toad of Toad Hall, dressed as a washerwoman! — but when the girl snaps that he can stay in prison as a Toad, he admits he has been proud and stupid. Who acts: girl, Toad. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 2: Toad's Adventures (the washerwoman's dress)» of the book
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 2: Toad's Adventures (the washerwoman's dress), sentence 3

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Toad of Toad Hall, dressed as a washerwoman! — but when the girl snaps that he can stay in prison as a Toad, he admits he has been proud and stupid.

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**Who acts:** girl, Toad · **What happens:** dress, snap, stay, admit, be · **To what, where:** Toad, prison · **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, 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:3
# text = Toad of Toad Hall, dressed as a washerwoman! — but when the girl snaps that he can stay in prison as a Toad, he admits he has been proud and stupid.
# 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nsubj:pass
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Hall	Hall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	washerwoman	washerwoman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
11	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:det
15	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:compound
16	snaps	snap	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	admits	admit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
30	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	32	cop	_	_
32	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	ccomp	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	stupid	stupid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	conj	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dress** | participle |  | Toad of Toad Hall *not said here* |  |  |  | as a washerwoman | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **snap** | present | the girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **stay** | can | Toad |  |  | prison |  | as a Toad | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in prison=Location |
| 4 | **admit** *speech: other* | present | Toad |  |  |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | present · perfect | Toad |  |  |  |  | proud *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | Toad *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:3`.

**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 ×3, 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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