---
title: The car's owners are «hungry, talkative, and gay» (gay = cheerful, i… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics
description: The car's owners are «hungry, talkative, and gay» (gay = cheerful, in the old meaning). Who acts: owners. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr. Toad (the car in the inn-yard, twenty years, and the deepest dungeon)» of the books course of Mova's primary school wit
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/48-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon/21/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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 VI, p…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/48-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon/) / 21

# The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr. Toad (the car in the inn-yard, twenty years, and the deepest dungeon), sentence 21

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The car's owners are «hungry, talkative, and gay» (gay = cheerful, in the old meaning).

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** owners · **What happens:** be

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr. Toad (the car in the inn-yard, twenty years, and the deepest dungeon)» 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 (owners), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:048-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon.lesson:21
# text = The car's owners are «hungry, talkative, and gay» (gay = cheerful, in the old meaning).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 048-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon.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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	owners	owner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
7	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	talkative	talkative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	gay	gay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
15	gay	gay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
16	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	17	punct	_	_
17	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	meaning	meaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .note -->
No stored speech act for this sentence.

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the car's owners |  |  |  |  | hungry *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** *in a quote* |  | the car's owners *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** *in a quote* |  | the car's owners *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:048-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon.lesson:21`.

**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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, p…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/48-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon/19/)
- next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, p…, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/48-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon/23/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/48-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon/)