--- title: Next evening the aunt comes; for some gold sovereigns she hands over… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 2: T… · tree and pragmatics description: Next evening the aunt comes; for some gold sovereigns she hands over a cotton print gown, an apron, a shawl and a rusty black bonnet, and asks to be tied up and gagged, so it will look as if she was attacked. Who acts: aunt, it. 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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, it), 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:4 # text = Next evening the aunt comes; for some gold sovereigns she hands over a cotton print gown, an apron, a shawl and a rusty black bonnet, and asks to be tied up and gagged, so it will look as if she was attacked. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 2 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 aunt aunt NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct 7 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 10 det _ _ 9 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 10 sovereigns sovereign NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 11 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 hands hand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 13 over over ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 15 cotton cotton NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 print print NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 gown gown NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 apron apron NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 shawl shawl NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 26 rusty rusty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 27 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 bonnet bonnet NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=23:conj 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 32 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 33 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 34 aux:pass _ _ 34 tied tie VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 xcomp _ _ 35 up up ADP RP _ 34 compound:prt _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 gagged gag VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=34:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 39 so so ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 40 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 41 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 42 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 conj _ _ 43 as as SCONJ IN _ 47 mark _ _ 44 if if SCONJ IN _ 43 fixed _ _ 45 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj:pass _ _ 46 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 47 aux:pass _ _ 47 attacked attack VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 42 advcl _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **come** | present | the aunt | | | | evening | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **hand over** | present | aunt | a print gown and a apron and a shawl and a rusty black bonnet | | | | for some gold sovereigns | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gown=Theme | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | aunt *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **tie up** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | aunt *not said here* | | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle» | | 5 | **gag** | participle | aunt *not said here* | | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **look** | future | it | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 7 | **attack** | past · passive | | aunt | | | | | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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:4`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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. 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