--- title: Nobody talks for a long time, and when they do, they talk with their… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 1: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics description: Nobody talks for a long time, and when they do, they talk with their mouths full and their elbows on the table — and Badger doesn't mind a bit. Who acts: Nobody, plates, Badger. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nobody, plates, Badger), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:037-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger.lesson:6 # text = Nobody talks for a long time, and when they do, they talk with their mouths full and their elbows on the table — and Badger doesn't mind a bit. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 037-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 2 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:compound 2 talks talk VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:conj 3 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 9 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 11 advmod _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 talk talk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 15 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 mouths mouth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 18 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 elbows elbow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 22 on on ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 25 — - PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 27 Badger Badger PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 28 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 30 mind mind VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:parataxis 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:obj 33 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14: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 | **talk** | present | Nobody | | | | time | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **talk** | present | plates *= plate* | | | | | with plates's mouths and plates's elbows on the table | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with mouth=Co-Agent | | 3 | **not** **mind** | present · do-support | Badger | a bit | | | | | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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:037-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger.lesson:6`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, p…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/37-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger/4/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, p…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/37-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/37-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger/)