The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 1: Mr. Badger (the door in the snow and the fire-lit kitchen), sentence 10

Mole says the footsteps sound like someone «walking in carpet slippers that were too large for him and down at heel» — «which was intelligent of Mole, because that was exactly what it was». (Down at heel = worn out and squashed at the back.)

Who acts: Mole, footsteps, that · What happens: say down, sound, walk, be, worn out, squash · To what, where: carpet slippers, heel, back · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 1: Mr. Badger (the door in the snow and the fire-lit kitchen)» 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 (Mole, footsteps, that), 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	Mole	Mole	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 footsteps	det
4	footsteps	footstep	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sound	nsubj
5	sound	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 «	case
7	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 «	compound
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 walking	punct
9	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 sound	advcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 slippers	case
11	carpet	carpet	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 slippers	compound
12	slippers	slipper	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 walking	obl
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 large	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 large	cop
15	too	too	ADV	_	16 large	advmod
16	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 slippers	amod
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 large	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 heel	cc
20	down	down	ADV	_	22 heel	advmod
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 heel	case
22	heel	heel	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 large	conj
23	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 large	punct
24	—	-	PUNCT	_	28 intelligent	punct
25	«	«	PUNCT	_	28 intelligent	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 intelligent	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 intelligent	cop
28	intelligent	intelligent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 says	ccomp
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 Mole	case
30	Mole	Mole	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 intelligent	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 what	punct
32	because	because	SCONJ	_	36 what	mark
33	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 what	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 what	cop
35	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	36 what	advmod
36	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 intelligent	advcl
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 was	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 what	acl:relcl
39	»	»	PUNCT	_	28 intelligent	punct
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 intelligent	punct
41	(	(	PUNCT	_	42 Down	punct
42	Down	down	ADP	_	2 says	compound:prt
43	at	at	ADP	_	44 heel	case
44	heel	heel	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 worn	obl
45	=	=	PUNCT	_	44 heel	punct
46	worn	worn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 says	ccomp
47	out	out	ADP	_	46 worn	compound:prt
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 squashed	cc
49	squashed	squash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 worn	conj
50	at	at	ADP	_	52 back	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 back	det
52	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 squashed	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct
54	)	)	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	say down speech: assert	present	Mole			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sound	present	the footsteps			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	walk in a quote	gerund	the footsteps not said here	carpet slippers		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in slipper=Trajectory
4	is in a quote	past	that		for Mole; large property	tree rules
5	is in a quote	past			of Mole; intelligent property	tree rules
6	is a in a quote	past	that		exactly property	tree rules
7	worn out	infinitive		heel		tree rules
8	squash	participle		the back		vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent at back=Trajectory

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:037-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger.lesson:10.

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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×4. 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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