---
title: Old words in this part: «hither and thither» = here and there; «ging… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 1: The… · tree and pragmatics
description: Old words in this part: «hither and thither» = here and there; «gingerly» = very carefully; «rapture» = great joy; «pettishly» = a bit sulkily; «composedly» = calmly; «Hold up!» = stop! A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 1: The River Bank (the Mole leaves his spring-c
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/25-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river/29/)

<!-- 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 I, pa…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/25-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river/) / 29

# The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 1: The River Bank (the Mole leaves his spring-cleaning and meets the Rat), sentence 29

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Old words in this part: «hither and thither» = here and there; «gingerly» = very carefully; «rapture» = great joy; «pettishly» = a bit sulkily; «composedly» = calmly; «Hold up!» = stop!

<!-- .vintro -->
**What happens:** hold up, stop

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 1: The River Bank (the Mole leaves his spring-cleaning and meets the Rat)» 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:025-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river.lesson:29
# text = Old words in this part: «hither and thither» = here and there; «gingerly» = very carefully; «rapture» = great joy; «pettishly» = a bit sulkily; «composedly» = calmly; «Hold up!» = stop!
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 025-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river.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, R6-punct-agree ×6
1	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	hither	hither	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	thither	thither	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:det
11	»	»	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	parataxis	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	conj	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct
18	gingerly	gingerly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	»	»	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
20	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	2	appos	_	_
21	very	very	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	«	«	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	rapture	rapture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
26	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
27	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
30	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	_
32	pettishly	pettishly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
33	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
34	=	=	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	2	appos	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl:unmarked	_	_
37	sulkily	sulkily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
38	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	40	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=41:punct
40	composedly	composedly	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	37	punct	_	_
42	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
43	calmly	calmly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	conj	_	_
44	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	«	«	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	Hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	ccomp	_	_
47	up	up	ADP	RP	_	46	compound:prt	_	_
48	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	46	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=37:punct
49	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	46	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=37:punct
50	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
51	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	conj	_	_
52	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	37	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 | **hold up** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **stop** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

<!-- .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:025-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river.lesson:29`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×6. **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 I, pa…, 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/25-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river/28/)
- next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, pa…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/26-willows-ch1-part2-the-river-and-the-wild-wood/0/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/25-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river/)

