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title: He had to squeeze himself a good deal to get through the narrow open… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: He had to squeeze himself a good deal to get through the narrow opening between the strips of the basket. Who acts: Mouse. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Mouse and the Weasel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Mouse and the Weasel, sentence 2

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He had to squeeze himself a good deal to get through the narrow opening between the strips of the basket.

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**Who acts:** Mouse · **What happens:** have, squeeze, get · **To what, where:** Mouse, narrow opening

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Mouse and the Weasel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mouse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg19994:646`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg19994:84:2
# text = He had to squeeze himself a good deal to get through the narrow opening between the strips of the basket.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	squeeze	squeeze	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
11	through	through	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	opening	opening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	between	between	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	strips	strip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Mouse |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **squeeze** | to-infinitive | Mouse *not said here* | Mouse |  |  |  | a good deal *obl:unmarked* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme |
| 3 | **get** | to-infinitive | Mouse *not said here* |  |  | the narrow opening between the strips of the basket |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme through opening=Destination |

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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:** «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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