--- title: She tells him: «You talk too much, that's your chief fault, and I'm… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 2: T… · tree and pragmatics description: She tells him: «You talk too much, that's your chief fault, and I'm trying to think, and you hurt my head.» Who acts: gate, Toad, that. 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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 (gate, Toad, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:053-willows-ch8-part2-the-washerwoman.lesson:7 # text = She tells him: «You talk too much, that's your chief fault, and I'm trying to think, and you hurt my head.» # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 053-willows-ch8-part2-the-washerwoman.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 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 iobj _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 5 « « PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 6 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 talk talk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 8 too too ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 much much ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:obj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 15 nsubj _ _ 12 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 13 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 chief chief ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 fault fault NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 trying try VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 hurt hurt VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj 27 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 30 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=evaluate, polarity=neg | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | gate | | Toad | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **talk** *in a quote* | present | Toad | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | that | your chief fault | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **try** *in a quote* | present · progressive | gate | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **think** *speech: other* *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | gate *not said here* | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **hurt** *in a quote* | past | Toad | my head | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer head=Patient | 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:053-willows-ch8-part2-the-washerwoman.lesson:7`. **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. **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 VIII,…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/53-willows-ch8-part2-the-washerwoman/5/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII,…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/53-willows-ch8-part2-the-washerwoman/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/53-willows-ch8-part2-the-washerwoman/)