The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 2: Mr. Badger (bad news of Toad, a winter promise, and two lost hedgehogs), sentence 14

After supper each animal «felt that his skin was now as tight as was decently safe» — a funny way of saying they were stuffed full.

Who acts: animal, skin, funny way · What happens: feel, be, say, stuff · To what, where: fines · 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 (animal, skin, funny way), 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	After	after	ADP	_	2 supper	case
2	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 felt	obl
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 animal	det
4	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 felt	nsubj
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 felt	punct
6	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 tight	mark
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 skin	nmod:poss
9	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tight	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 tight	cop
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 tight	advmod
12	as	as	ADV	_	13 tight	advmod
13	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 felt	ccomp
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 safe	mark
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 safe	cop
16	decently	decently	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 safe	advmod
17	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 tight	conj
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	17 safe	punct
19	—	-	PUNCT	_	22 way	punct
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 way	det
21	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 way	amod
22	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 felt	parataxis
23	of	of	SCONJ	_	24 saying	mark
24	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 way	acl
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 stuffed	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 stuffed	aux:pass
27	stuffed	stuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 saying	ccomp
28	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 stuffed	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 felt	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	feel in a quote	past	each animal		after supper		vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	is in a quote	past	animal's skin		now	tight property	tree rules
3	is in a quote	past	animal's skin not said here			decently, safe property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	gerund	a funny way not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	stuff	past · passive		fines = fine		full property	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=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:038-willows-ch4-part2-toad-news-and-hedgehogs.lesson:14.

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, R6-punct-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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