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title: Thus squeaked the Rat; he squeaked in honor of the old time, when Mo… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus squeaked the Rat; he squeaked in honor of the old time, when Mother Plague was still alive. Who acts: place, Mother. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 48

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Thus squeaked the Rat; he squeaked in honor of the old time, when Mother Plague was still alive.

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**Who acts:** place, Mother · **What happens:** squeak, be, honor · **To what, where:** Rat, honor, old time

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (place, Mother), 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:pg27200:26:48
# text = Thus squeaked the Rat; he squeaked in honor of the old time, when Mother Plague was still alive.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	squeaked	squeak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	squeaked	squeak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	honor	honor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	20	mark	_	_
16	Mother	Mother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
17	Plague	Plague	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	still	still	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **squeak** | past |  | the Rat |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent rat=Theme |
| 2 | **squeak** | past | place |  |  | honor of the old time |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in honor=Location |
| 3 | **is** | past | Mother |  |  |  | still | alive *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **honor** |  |  | the old time |  |  |  |  | nom honor «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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