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title: Toad, still dressed as a washerwoman, tells her a sad made-up story:… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 1: The… · tree and pragmatics
description: Toad, still dressed as a washerwoman, tells her a sad made-up story: a married daughter in trouble near Toad Hall, his washing business left behind, all his money lost. Who acts: Toad, married daughter. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 1: The Further Adventures of 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 8

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Toad, still dressed as a washerwoman, tells her a sad made-up story: a married daughter in trouble near Toad Hall, his washing business left behind, all his money lost.

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**Who acts:** Toad, married daughter · **What happens:** dress, tell, make up, wash, leave behind, lose · **To what, where:** Toad, sad made story, horse, business, money · **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, married daughter), 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:8
# text = Toad, still dressed as a washerwoman, tells her a sad made-up story: a married daughter in trouble near Toad Hall, his washing business left behind, all his money lost.
# 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): R4-particle ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3
1	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	still	still	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	washerwoman	washerwoman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	iobj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
12	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
13	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=13:compound
16	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	married	married	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
20	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	near	near	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Hall	Hall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	washing	wash	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
29	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
30	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl	_	_
31	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	35	det	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=35:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:PronType=Tot
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
36	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	acl	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- 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** | participle |  | Toad *not said here* |  |  | still | as a washerwoman | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Toad | a sad made story and Toad's money | horse |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient story=Topic |
| 3 | **make up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **wash** | gerund | a married daughter in trouble near Toad Hall *not said here* | Toad's business |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=Patient |
| 5 | **leave behind** | participle |  | Toad's business *not said here* |  |  |  | behind *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **lose** | participle |  | Toad's money *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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**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:061-willows-ch10-part1-the-barge-woman.lesson:8`.

**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): R4-particle ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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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