--- title: The elder hedgehog: «Me and little Billy here, we was trying to find… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 2: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics description: The elder hedgehog: «Me and little Billy here, we was trying to find our way to school—mother would have us go, was the weather ever so». Who acts: we, mother, us. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 2: Mr. Badger (bad news of Toad, a winter promise, and two lost hedg --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/38-willows-ch4-part2-toad-news-and-hedgehogs/30/) [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 IV, p…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/38-willows-ch4-part2-toad-news-and-hedgehogs/) / 30 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 2: Mr. Badger (bad news of Toad, a winter promise, and two lost hedgehogs), sentence 30 The elder hedgehog: «Me and little Billy here, we was trying to find our way to school—mother would have us go, was the weather ever so». **Who acts:** we, mother, us · **What happens:** try, find, have, go, be · **To what, where:** way, us, weather This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 2: Mr. Badger (bad news of Toad, a winter promise, and two lost hedgehogs)» 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 (we, mother, us), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:038-willows-ch4-part2-toad-news-and-hedgehogs.lesson:30 # text = The elder hedgehog: «Me and little Billy here, we was trying to find our way to school—mother would have us go, was the weather ever so». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 038-willows-ch4-part2-toad-news-and-hedgehogs.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 elder elder ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 hedgehog hedgehog NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 5 « « PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 6 Me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 dislocated _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=6:cc 8 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 Billy Billy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 10 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 advmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 12 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 trying try VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 parataxis _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 17 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:case|HaikuPos=ADP:TO:_ 20 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 21 — - PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 22 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 23 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 25 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 weather weather NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 31 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 32 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:advmod 32 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 33 » » PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **try** *in a quote* | past · progressive | we | | | | | Me *dislocated* | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **find** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | our way | | | | to school | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | | 3 | **have** *in a quote* | would | mother | us | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | us *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | | the weather | | | | | tree rules | 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:038-willows-ch4-part2-toad-news-and-hedgehogs.lesson:30`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, p…, 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/38-willows-ch4-part2-toad-news-and-hedgehogs/28/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, p…, 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/38-willows-ch4-part2-toad-news-and-hedgehogs/33/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/38-willows-ch4-part2-toad-news-and-hedgehogs/)