Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 108

"Squeak, squeak," said a little mouse, creeping cautiously towards the tree; then came another; and they both sniffed at the fir-tree and crept between the branches.

Who acts: Squeak · What happens: say, creep, come, sniff · To what, where: little mouse, tree, branches · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Squeak), 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 said	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	said	say	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 said	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 creeping	punct
12	creeping	creep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 said	advcl
13	cautiously	cautiously	ADV	_	12 creeping	advmod
14	towards	towards	ADP	_	16 tree	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 tree	det
16	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 creeping	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 came	punct
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 came	advmod
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	parataxis
20	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	19 came	conj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 sniffed	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 sniffed	cc
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 sniffed	nsubj
24	both	both	ADV	_	25 sniffed	advmod
25	sniffed	sniff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	parataxis
26	at	at	ADP	_	30 tree	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 tree	det
28	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 tree	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 fir	punct
30	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sniffed	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 crept	cc
32	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 sniffed	conj
33	between	between	ADP	_	35 branches	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 branches	det
35	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 crept	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Squeak and squeak	a little mouse				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mouse=Topic
2	creep	gerund	Squeak and squeak not said here		the tree		cautiously property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards tree=Destination
3	come	past				then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	sniff	past	Squeak				at the fir tree; both property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at tree=Theme
5	creep	past	Squeak not said here		the branches			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between branch=Trajectory

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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