The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 2: Mr. Badger (bad news of Toad, a winter promise, and two lost hedgehogs), sentence 37

In the old days poor children were taught to call richer people «sir»; today we'd say everyone deserves the same respect.

Who acts: poor children, we, everyone · What happens: teach, call, say, deserve · To what, where: poor children, richer people, same respect · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (poor children, we, everyone), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 days	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 days	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 days	amod
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 taught	obl
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 children	amod
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 taught	nsubj:pass
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 taught	aux:pass
8	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 call	mark
10	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 taught	xcomp
11	richer	rich	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 people	amod
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 call	obj
13	«	«	PUNCT	_	14 sir	punct
14	sir	sir	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 people	conj
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 sir	punct
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 taught	punct
17	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 say	obl:unmarked
18	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 say	nsubj
19	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 say	aux
20	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 taught	parataxis
21	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	22 deserves	nsubj
22	deserves	deserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 say	ccomp
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 respect	det
24	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 respect	amod
25	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 deserves	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 taught	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	teach speech: other	past · passive		poor children		day	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	call	to-infinitive	poor children not said here		richer people and sir		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	would	we			today	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	deserve	present	everyone	the same respect			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:37.

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): no change. 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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