The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 1: Mr. Badger (the door in the snow and the fire-lit kitchen), sentence 6

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 · What happens: talk, not mind · To what, where: bit

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 1: Mr. Badger (the door in the snow and the fire-lit kitchen)» 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 (Nobody, plates, Badger), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 talks	nsubj
2	talks	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 time	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 time	det
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 time	amod
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 talks	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 talk	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 talk	cc
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 do	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 do	nsubj
11	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 talk	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 do	punct
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 talk	nsubj
14	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 talks	conj
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 mouths	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 mouths	nmod:poss
17	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 talk	obl
18	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 mouths	amod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 elbows	cc
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 elbows	nmod:poss
21	elbows	elbow	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 mouths	conj
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 table	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 table	det
24	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 elbows	nmod
25	—	-	PUNCT	_	30 mind	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 mind	cc
27	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 mind	nsubj
28	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 mind	aux
29	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 mind	advmod
30	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 talk	conj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 bit	det
32	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 mind	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 talks	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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, 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.

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