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title: But the squeaking and shrieking, the hurrying and scurrying, so that… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But the squeaking and shrieking, the hurrying and scurrying, so that you could neither hear yourself speak nor get a wink of good honest sleep the live-long night! Who acts: hurrying, you, yourself. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, with its
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 10

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But the squeaking and shrieking, the hurrying and scurrying, so that you could neither hear yourself speak nor get a wink of good honest sleep the live-long night!

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**Who acts:** hurrying, you, yourself · **What happens:** scurry, hear, speak, get · **To what, where:** yourself, wink · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hurrying, you, yourself), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg14241:15:10
# text = But the squeaking and shrieking, the hurrying and scurrying, so that you could neither hear yourself speak nor get a wink of good honest sleep the live-long night!
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	squeaking	squeaking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	shrieking	shrieking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hurrying	hurrying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	scurrying	scurry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	17	mark	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
18	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	17	obj	_	_
19	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	21	cc	_	_
21	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	wink	wink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
29	live	live	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scurry** | gerund | the hurrying *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hear** | could | you | yourself |  |  |  | neither *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | infinitive | yourself *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **get** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a wink of good honest sleep |  |  | night |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wink=Stimulus |

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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.

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**Text:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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