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title: Hush!" said Little Claus to his sack, at the same time treading upon… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Hush!" said Little Claus to his sack, at the same time treading upon it again, till it squeaked louder than before. Who acts: Hush, same time. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 48

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Hush!" said Little Claus to his sack, at the same time treading upon it again, till it squeaked louder than before.

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**Who acts:** Hush, same time · **What happens:** say, tread, squeak · **To what, where:** sack, Hush · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hush, same time), 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:pg27200:71:48
# text = Hush!" said Little Claus to his sack, at the same time treading upon it again, till it squeaked louder than before.
1	Hush	hush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Claus	Claus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
15	treading	tread	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
18	again	again	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	squeaked	squeak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
23	louder	loud	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	xcomp	_	_
24	than	than	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	before	before	ADV	RB	_	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Hush |  | Claus's sack |  | time |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to sack=Recipient |
| 2 | **tread** *in a quote* | gerund | the same time *not said here* |  |  | Hush | again |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon it=Trajectory |
| 3 | **squeak** *in a quote* | past | Hush |  |  |  |  | loud *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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