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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	While	while	SCONJ	_	3 fry	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fry	nsubj
3	fry	fry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 talk	advcl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fry	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 fry	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Otter	det
7	Otter	Otter	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 talk	nsubj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 Rat	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Rat	det
10	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Otter	conj
11	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 talk	obj
12	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 talk	compound
13	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	without	without	ADP	_	15 end	case
15	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 talk	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 comes	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 comes	cc
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 last	case
19	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 comes	obl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Badger	det
21	Badger	badger	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 comes	nsubj
22	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 talk	conj
23	in	in	ADV	_	22 comes	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 yawning	punct
25	yawning	yawn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 comes	advcl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 rubbing	cc
27	rubbing	rub	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 yawning	conj
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 eyes	nmod:poss
29	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 rubbing	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 talk	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	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, 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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