--- title: They think he is a poor old washerwoman who has fainted from the hea… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 3: The… · tree and pragmatics description: They think he is a poor old washerwoman who has fainted from the heat, and kindly lift him into the car. Who acts: gentlemen, Toad, poor old washerwoman. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 3: The Further Adventures of Toad (the most conceited song and the very same mo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/63-willows-ch10-part3-the-conceited-song/9/) [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/63-willows-ch10-part3-the-conceited-song/) / 9 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 3: The Further Adventures of Toad (the most conceited song and the very same motor-car), sentence 9 They think he is a poor old washerwoman who has fainted from the heat, and kindly lift him into the car. **Who acts:** gentlemen, Toad, poor old washerwoman · **What happens:** think, be, faint, lift · **To what, where:** poor old washerwoman, Toad, car · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 3: The Further Adventures of Toad (the most conceited song and the very same motor-car)» 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 (gentlemen, Toad, poor old washerwoman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:063-willows-ch10-part3-the-conceited-song.lesson:9 # text = They think he is a poor old washerwoman who has fainted from the heat, and kindly lift him into the car. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 063-willows-ch10-part3-the-conceited-song.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): no change 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 washerwoman washerwoman NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 ccomp _ _ 9 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 10 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 fainted faint VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 8 acl:relcl _ _ 12 from from ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 heat heat NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 kindly kindly ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 lift lift VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 19 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 into into ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | gentlemen *= gentleman* | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | Toad | a poor old washerwoman | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **faint** | present · perfect | a poor old washerwoman | | | | | from the heat | vn change\_bodily\_state-40.8.4 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer from heat=Stimulus | | 4 | **lift** | infinitive | gentlemen *= gentleman* *not said here* | Toad | | the car | | kindly *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into car=Destination | 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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