Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 70

"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 · What happens: cry, be, not be, contend, suppose · To what, where: little mouse, kitchen door, rest

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.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Squeak	punct
2	Squeak	squeak	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cried	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 squeak	punct
4	squeak	squeak	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Squeak	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Squeak	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Squeak	punct
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 mouse	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 mouse	amod
10	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cried	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	14 door	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 door	det
13	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 door	compound
14	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cried	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 fourth	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 fourth	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 fourth	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 fourth	det
19	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 cried	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 third	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 third	cc
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 third	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 third	det
24	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	19 fourth	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 contending	punct
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 four	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 four	det
28	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 contending	obl
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 contending	nsubj
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 contending	aux
31	contending	contend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 third	advcl
32	for	for	ADP	_	34 prize	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 prize	det
34	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 contending	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 one	punct
36	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 fourth	conj
37	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 one	nmod
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 rest	det
39	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 whom	nsubj
40	supposed	suppose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 rest	acl
41	to	to	PART	_	43 dead	mark
42	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 dead	cop
43	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 supposed	xcomp
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	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

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.

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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