The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 4: Dulce Domum (the carol, a magic supper, and a home to come back to), sentence 26

In the old days even children were given a little; today we know alcohol is harmful for children and they must not drink it.

Who acts: we, alcohol, children · What happens: give, know, be, not drink · To what, where: children, alcohol · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 4: Dulce Domum (the carol, a magic supper, and a home to come back to)» 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, alcohol, children), 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 given	obl
5	even	even	ADV	_	6 children	advmod
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 given	nsubj:pass
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 given	aux:pass
8	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 little	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 given	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 harmful	punct
12	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 know	obl
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 know	nsubj
14	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 given	parataxis
15	alcohol	alcohol	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 harmful	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 harmful	cop
17	harmful	harmful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 know	ccomp
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 children	case
19	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 harmful	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 drink	cc
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 drink	nsubj
22	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 drink	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 drink	advmod
24	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 harmful	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 drink	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 given	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · passive		children	day		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient little=Theme
2	know	present	we		today		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	present	alcohol			for children; harmful property	tree rules
4	not drink	must	children = child	alcohol			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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:044-willows-ch5-part4-the-carol-and-a-happy-homecoming.lesson:26.

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, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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