--- title: After supper each animal «felt that his skin was now as tight as was… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 2: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics description: 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. 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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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:038-willows-ch4-part2-toad-news-and-hedgehogs.lesson:14 # text = 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. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 038-willows-ch4-part2-toad-news-and-hedgehogs.lesson # annotation = 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 1 After after ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 supper supper NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 3 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 4 det _ _ 4 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 « « PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 6 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 that that SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 11 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 13 advmod _ _ 12 as as ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 tight tight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 ccomp _ _ 14 as as SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 16 decently decently ADV RB Degree=Pos 17 advmod _ _ 17 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 conj _ _ 18 » » PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 19 — - PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 funny funny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:conj 23 of of SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 24 saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 acl _ _ 25 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 stuffed stuff VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 ccomp _ _ 28 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 xcomp _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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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