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title: "Squeak, squeak," cried a little mouse at the kitchen door; it was t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Squeak, squeak," cried a little mouse at the kitchen door; it was the fourth, and not the third, of the four who were contending for the prize, one whom the rest supposed to be dead. Who acts: Squeak, door. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Second Mo
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 70

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"Squeak, squeak," cried a little mouse at the kitchen door; it was the fourth, and not the third, of the four who were contending for the prize, one whom the rest supposed to be dead.

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**Who acts:** Squeak, door · **What happens:** cry, be, not be, contend, suppose · **To what, where:** little mouse, kitchen door, rest

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Squeak, door), 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:pg27200:180:70
# text = "Squeak, squeak," cried a little mouse at the kitchen door; it was the fourth, and not the third, of the four who were contending for the prize, one whom the rest supposed to be dead.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Squeak	squeak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	squeak	squeak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	fourth	fourth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	obl	_	_
29	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
30	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	contending	contend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	prize	prize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	conj	_	_
37	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	36	nmod	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
40	supposed	suppose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	acl	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
42	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	cop	_	_
43	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Squeak and squeak | a little mouse |  | the kitchen door |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | past | door |  |  |  |  | fourth *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **be** |  | door *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **contend** | past · progressive |  |  |  |  |  | of the four; for the prize | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **suppose** | participle |  | the rest *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | tree rules |

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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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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