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title: He found Toad's old washerwoman dress drying by the kitchen fire, pu… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 5: «Li… · tree and pragmatics
description: He found Toad's old washerwoman dress drying by the kitchen fire, put it on with the bonnet and shawl, and walked boldly up to the sentries at Toad Hall: «Good morning, gentlemen! Who acts: Mole, old washerwoman dress. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 5: «Like Summ
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 5: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (Mole the washerwoman and the badgers that never were), sentence 1

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He found Toad's old washerwoman dress drying by the kitchen fire, put it on with the bonnet and shawl, and walked boldly up to the sentries at Toad Hall: «Good morning, gentlemen!

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**Who acts:** Mole, old washerwoman dress · **What happens:** find, dry, put on, walk · **To what, where:** old washerwoman dress, dress, sentries

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 5: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (Mole the washerwoman and the badgers that never were)» 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 (Mole, old washerwoman dress), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:069-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole.lesson:1
# text = He found Toad's old washerwoman dress drying by the kitchen fire, put it on with the bonnet and shawl, and walked boldly up to the sentries at Toad Hall: «Good morning, gentlemen!
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 069-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	washerwoman	washerwoman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
8	drying	dry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:acl
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	bonnet	bonnet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	shawl	shawl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
25	boldly	boldly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	up	up	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	sentries	sentry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	Hall	Hall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	_
34	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	36	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=36:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:::_
35	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
38	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	vocative	_	_
39	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: exclamation
- 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 | **find** | past | Mole | Toad's old washerwoman dress |  |  |  | morning gentlemen *vocative* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent dress=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **dry** | gerund | Toad's old washerwoman dress *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the kitchen fire | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **put on** | past | Mole *not said here* | dress |  |  |  | with the bonnet and shawl | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal |
| 4 | **walk** | past | Mole *not said here* |  |  | the sentries at Toad Hall |  | boldly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up sentry=Trajectory |

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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:069-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole.lesson:1`.

**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, R8-pos-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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