--- title: She asks Toad to wash some of her things; Toad, frightened, offers t… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 1: The… · tree and pragmatics description: She asks Toad to wash some of her things; Toad, frightened, offers to steer instead, but she says «It takes some practice to steer a barge properly.» Who acts: horse, Toad, 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 (horse, Toad, It), 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:26 # text = She asks Toad to wash some of her things; Toad, frightened, offers to steer instead, but she says «It takes some practice to steer a barge properly.» # 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, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 Toad toad NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 wash wash VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 6 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 5 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:obj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 frightened frighten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 advcl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 offers offer VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 steer steer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 18 instead instead ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 23 « « PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 24 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 ccomp _ _ 26 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 27 det _ _ 27 practice practice NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 steer steer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 acl _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 barge barge NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 properly properly ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 34 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 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 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | horse | | Toad | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent toad=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **wash** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | horse *not said here* | some | | | | | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient | | 3 | **frighten** | participle | Toad *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **offer** | present | Toad | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **steer** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Toad *not said here* | | | | | instead *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | horse | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **take** *in a quote* | present | It | some practice | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent practice=Theme | | 8 | **steer** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | a barge | | | | properly *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent barge=Theme | 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. 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