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title: Dressed up and giggled at, Toad walks out past gate after gate, the… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 2: T… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dressed up and giggled at, Toad walks out past gate after gate, the warders joking with the «washerwoman» all the way, until the little gate clicks behind him and he feels the fresh air: he is free! Who acts: Toad, warders, little gate. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 2: Toad's Adventures (the washerwoman's dress), sentence 5

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Dressed up and giggled at, Toad walks out past gate after gate, the warders joking with the «washerwoman» all the way, until the little gate clicks behind him and he feels the fresh air: he is free!

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**Who acts:** Toad, warders, little gate · **What happens:** dress up, giggle at, walk out, joke, click, feel · **To what, where:** way, fresh air

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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 (Toad, warders, little gate), 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:5
# text = Dressed up and giggled at, Toad walks out past gate after gate, the warders joking with the «washerwoman» all the way, until the little gate clicks behind him and he feels the fresh air: he is free!
# 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
1	Dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	giggled	giggle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	walks	walk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	past	past	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	after	after	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	warders	warder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:obj
17	joking	joke	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:acl
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
21	washerwoman	washerwoman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct
23	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	25	det:predet	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	clicks	click	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
32	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:conj
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
40	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	43	punct	_	_
41	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
42	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
43	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	conj	_	_
44	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: exclamation
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dress up** | participle | Toad *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **giggle at** | participle | Toad *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **walk out** | present | Toad |  |  |  | after gate | past gate | vn resign-10.11 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **joke** *speech: other* | gerund | the warders | all way |  |  |  | with the washerwoman | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with washerwoman=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **click** | present | the little gate |  |  |  |  | behind Toad | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind he=Location |
| 6 | **feel** | present | Toad | the fresh air |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme |
| 7 | **is** | present | Toad |  |  |  |  | free *property* | 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:5`.

**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. **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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