The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 2: The Further Adventures of Toad (into the canal, the stolen horse and «a shilling a leg»), sentence 26

That is an old idea about a whole people; today we know it is wrong to judge anyone by the group they come from.

Who acts: That, we, people · What happens: be, know, judge, come · To what, where: old idea, anyone, group · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 2: The Further Adventures of Toad (into the canal, the stolen horse and «a shilling a leg»)» 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 (That, we, people), 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 idea	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 idea	cop
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 idea	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 idea	amod
5	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	9 people	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 people	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 people	amod
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 idea	nmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 know	punct
11	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 know	obl:unmarked
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 know	nsubj
13	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 idea	parataxis
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 wrong	expl
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 wrong	cop
16	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 know	ccomp
17	to	to	PART	_	18 judge	mark
18	judge	judge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 wrong	csubj
19	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	18 judge	obj
20	by	by	ADP	_	22 group	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 group	det
22	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 judge	obl
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 come	nsubj
24	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 group	acl:relcl
25	from	from	ADP	_	24 come	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 idea	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	That	a old idea		about a whole people	tree rules
2	know	present	we		today		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	present				wrong property	tree rules
4	judge	to-infinitive		anyone		by the group	vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent anyone=Value
5	come	present	people	the group not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location group=Theme

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:062-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg.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): R7-rel-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.

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