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title: He says he loves washing and is never so happy as with both arms in… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 1: The… · tree and pragmatics
description: He says he loves washing and is never so happy as with both arms in the wash-tub — so the barge-woman gives him a heap of her washing to do. Who acts: Toad, barge woman, woman. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 1: The Further Adventures of Toad (free, the canal and t
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 1: The Further Adventures of Toad (free, the canal and the barge-woman's washing), sentence 12

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He says he loves washing and is never so happy as with both arms in the wash-tub — so the barge-woman gives him a heap of her washing to do.

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**Who acts:** Toad, barge woman, woman · **What happens:** say, love, not be, give, do, wash · **To what, where:** washing, heap, Toad · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 1: The Further Adventures of Toad (free, the canal and the barge-woman's washing)» 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, barge woman, woman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:061-willows-ch10-part1-the-barge-woman.lesson:12
# text = He says he loves washing and is never so happy as with both arms in the wash-tub — so the barge-woman gives him a heap of her washing to do.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 061-willows-ch10-part1-the-barge-woman.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 ×1
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	loves	love	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
5	washing	washing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	wash	wash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	_
19	tub	tub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
20	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	barge	barge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	_
25	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	iobj	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	heap	heap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	washing	washing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Toad |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **love** | present | Toad | washing |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer washing=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **is** | present | Toad *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as both arms in the wash tub; happy *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **give** | present | the barge woman | a heap of woman's washing | Toad |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient heap=Theme |
| 5 | **do** | to-infinitive | the barge woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **wash** |  | woman |  |  |  |  |  | nom washing «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**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 ×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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