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title: Washed and in the Rat's clothes, he admires himself and wonders how… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 1: «Li… · tree and pragmatics
description: Washed and in the Rat's clothes, he admires himself and wonders how anybody could ever have taken him for a washerwoman. Who acts: Rat, anybody. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 1: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (home at the Rat's, a telling-off, and bad new
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 1: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (home at the Rat's, a telling-off, and bad news), sentence 3

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Washed and in the Rat's clothes, he admires himself and wonders how anybody could ever have taken him for a washerwoman.

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**Who acts:** Rat, anybody · **What happens:** wash, admire, wonder, take · **To what, where:** clothes, Rat · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 1: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (home at the Rat's, a telling-off, and bad news)» 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 (Rat, anybody), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:065-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them.lesson:3
# text = Washed and in the Rat's clothes, he admires himself and wonders how anybody could ever have taken him for a washerwoman.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 065-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Washed	wash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	1	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	admires	admire	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
11	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	wonders	wonder	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
14	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
15	anybody	anybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	19	nsubj	_	_
16	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	19	advmod	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux	_	_
19	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	ccomp	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	washerwoman	washerwoman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1: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 | **wash** | participle |  |  |  | the Rat's clothes |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **admire** | present | Rat | Rat |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus |
| 3 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | present | Rat *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **take** | could · perfect | anybody | Rat |  |  | ever | for a washerwoman | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent he=Theme for washerwoman=Beneficiary |

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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:065-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them.lesson:3`.

**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): R6-punct-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/).

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