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title: Kreem-kreem-kreem!" he squeaked. — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Kreem-kreem-kreem!" he squeaked. Who acts: Kreem kreem kreem. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Fox and the Cat, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Fox and the Cat, sentence 7

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Kreem-kreem-kreem!" he squeaked.

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**Who acts:** Kreem kreem kreem · **What happens:** squeak

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Fox and the Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kreem kreem kreem), 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:pg29672:13:7
# text = Kreem-kreem-kreem!" he squeaked.
1	Kreem	kreem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	kreem	kreem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	kreem	kreem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	squeaked	squeak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **squeak** *in a quote* | past | Kreem kreem kreem |  |  |  |  |  | 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:** «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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