--- title: The barge-woman's last joke: «Put yourself through your mangle, wash… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 2: The… · tree and pragmatics description: The barge-woman's last joke: «Put yourself through your mangle, washerwoman, and iron your face and crimp it, and you'll pass for quite a decent-looking Toad!» (a mangle = a machine with rollers for squeezing water out of wet washing; to crimp = to press into little waves) Who acts: you, barge woman --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/62-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg/20/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, pa…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/62-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg/) / 20 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 2: The Further Adventures of Toad (into the canal, the stolen horse and «a shilling a leg»), sentence 20 The barge-woman's last joke: «Put yourself through your mangle, washerwoman, and iron your face and crimp it, and you'll pass for quite a decent-looking Toad!» (a mangle = a machine with rollers for squeezing water out of wet washing; to crimp = to press into little waves) **Who acts:** you, barge woman · **What happens:** put, iron, crimp, pass, look, press · **To what, where:** yourself, mangle, face, little waves · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 2: The Further Adventures of Toad (into the canal, the stolen horse and «a shilling a leg»)» 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 (you, barge woman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:062-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg.lesson:20 # text = The barge-woman's last joke: «Put yourself through your mangle, washerwoman, and iron your face and crimp it, and you'll pass for quite a decent-looking Toad!» (a mangle = a machine with rollers for squeezing water out of wet washing; to crimp = to press into little waves) # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 062-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 barge barge NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ _ 4 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ _ 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 9 « « PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 10 Put put VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 11 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 10 obj _ _ 12 through through ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 mangle mangle NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 washerwoman washerwoman NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 iron iron VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 20 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 crimp crimp VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:parataxis 30 for for ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 31 quite quite DET PDT PronType=Ind 36 det:predet _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 33 decent decent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:compound 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 33 punct _ _ 35 looking look VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 36 amod _ _ 36 Toad toad NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 37 ! ! PUNCT . _ 29 punct _ _ 38 » » PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ _ 39 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 41 punct _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 mangle mangle NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 42 = = PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 machine machine NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 appos _ _ 45 with with ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 rollers roller NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 nmod _ _ 47 for for ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 squeezing squeezing NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 compound _ _ 49 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nmod _ _ 50 out out ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 51 of of ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 52 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 53 amod _ _ 53 washing washing NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 nmod _ _ 54 ; ; PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 55 to to PART TO _ 56 mark _ _ 56 crimp crimp VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 parataxis _ _ 57 = = PUNCT , _ 59 punct _ _ 58 to to PART TO _ 59 mark _ _ 59 press press VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 56 conj _ _ 60 into into ADP IN _ 62 case _ _ 61 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 62 amod _ _ 62 waves wave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 59 obl _ _ 63 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 29 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 | **put** *in a quote* | infinitive | | yourself | | your mangle and washerwoman | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme through mangle=Destination | | 2 | **iron** *in a quote* | infinitive | | your face | | | | | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient | | 3 | **crimp** *in a quote* | infinitive | | face | | | | | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 4 | **pass** *in a quote* | future | you | a mangle | | | | for quite looking Toad | tree rules | | 5 | **look** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **crimp** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **press** | to-infinitive | | | | little waves | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent into wave=Trajectory | | 8 | **joke** | | the barge woman | | | | | | nom joke «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:books:062-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg.lesson:20`. **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 ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, pa…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/62-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg/19/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, pa…, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/62-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/62-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg/)