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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hedgehog	det
2	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hedgehog	amod
3	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 hedgehog	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	24 have	punct
6	Me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 trying	dislocated
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 Billy	cc
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Billy	amod
9	Billy	Billy	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Me	conj
10	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 Me	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Me	punct
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 trying	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 trying	aux
14	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 have	parataxis
15	to	to	PART	_	16 find	mark
16	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 trying	xcomp
17	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 way	nmod:poss
18	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 find	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 school	case
20	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 way	nmod
21	—	-	PUNCT	_	24 have	punct
22	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 have	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 have	aux
24	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hedgehog	parataxis
25	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 have	obj
26	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 have	xcomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 weather	punct
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 weather	cop
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 weather	det
30	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 have	obl
31	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	32 so	advmod
32	so	so	ADV	_	24 have	advmod
33	»	»	PUNCT	_	24 have	punct
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hedgehog	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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, 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.

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