--- title: While they fry it, the Otter and the Rat talk river talk without end… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 3: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics description: While they fry it, the Otter and the Rat talk river talk without end, and at last the Badger comes in, yawning and rubbing his eyes. Who acts: hedgehogs, Otter, Badger. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 3: Mr. Badger (the Otter comes through the snow, and the best h --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/39-willows-ch4-part3-the-otter-and-underground-homes/6/) [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 IV, p…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/39-willows-ch4-part3-the-otter-and-underground-homes/) / 6 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 3: Mr. Badger (the Otter comes through the snow, and the best home is underground), sentence 6 While they fry it, the Otter and the Rat talk river talk without end, and at last the Badger comes in, yawning and rubbing his eyes. **Who acts:** hedgehogs, Otter, Badger · **What happens:** fry, talk, come in, yawn, rub · **To what, where:** Mole, talk, last, eyes This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 3: Mr. Badger (the Otter comes through the snow, and the best home is underground)» 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 (hedgehogs, Otter, Badger), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:039-willows-ch4-part3-the-otter-and-underground-homes.lesson:6 # text = While they fry it, the Otter and the Rat talk river talk without end, and at last the Badger comes in, yawning and rubbing his eyes. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 039-willows-ch4-part3-the-otter-and-underground-homes.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 While while SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 fry fry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Otter Otter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 11 talk talk NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 12 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 13 talk talk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 14 without without ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 18 at at ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 last last NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 Badger badger NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 23 in in ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 yawning yawn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 rubbing rub VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 conj _ _ 28 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fry** | present | hedgehogs *= hedgehog* | Mole | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 2 | **talk** | infinitive | the Otter and the Rat | talk | | | without end | | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent talk=Patient | | 3 | **come in** | present | the Badger | | | last | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location | | 4 | **yawn** | gerund | the Badger *not said here* | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **rub** | gerund | the Badger *not said here* | Otter's eyes | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | 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:039-willows-ch4-part3-the-otter-and-underground-homes.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): 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. 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