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title: Struggling with the cotton gown, he reaches «where all waistcoat poc… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 3: T… · tree and pragmatics
description: Struggling with the cotton gown, he reaches «where all waistcoat pockets are eternally situated» and finds «not only no money, but no pocket to hold it, and no waistcoat to hold the pocket!» Who acts: washerwoman. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 3: Toad's Advent
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 3: Toad's Adventures (no money, no pocket, and the engine-driver), sentence 12

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Struggling with the cotton gown, he reaches «where all waistcoat pockets are eternally situated» and finds «not only no money, but no pocket to hold it, and no waistcoat to hold the pocket!»

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**Who acts:** washerwoman · **What happens:** struggle, reach, situate, find, hold · **To what, where:** waistcoat pockets, money, pocket · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 3: Toad's Adventures (no money, no pocket, and the engine-driver)» 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 (washerwoman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:054-willows-ch8-part3-no-money-no-pocket.lesson:12
# text = Struggling with the cotton gown, he reaches «where all waistcoat pockets are eternally situated» and finds «not only no money, but no pocket to hold it, and no waistcoat to hold the pocket!»
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 054-willows-ch8-part3-no-money-no-pocket.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): R3-conj-first ×1
1	Struggling	struggle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	cotton	cotton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	gown	gown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	reaches	reach	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
10	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	16	advmod	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
12	waistcoat	waistcoat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	pockets	pocket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
15	eternally	eternally	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	situated	situate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	xcomp	_	_
17	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
20	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
22	only	only	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
24	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	28	det	_	_
28	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	acl	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	35	det	_	_
35	waistcoat	waistcoat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=28:conj
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	acl	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	35	punct	_	_
41	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **struggle** | gerund | washerwoman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the cotton gown | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with gown=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **reach** | present | washerwoman |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **situate** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | all waistcoat pockets |  |  |  | eternally *property* | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **find** | present | washerwoman *not said here* | no money but no pocket and no waistcoat |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Topic |
| 5 | **hold** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | washerwoman *not said here* | pocket |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 6 | **hold** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | washerwoman *not said here* | the pocket |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pocket=Theme |

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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:054-willows-ch8-part3-no-money-no-pocket.lesson:12`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×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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