Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 25

She said the ant-hill was the loftiest thing in the world, and yet close to the mound stood a tall tree, which no one could deny was loftier, much loftier, but no mention was made of the tree.

Who acts: working, ant hill, close, one · What happens: say, be, stand, deny, make · To what, where: loftiest thing, world, tall tree, mention · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (working, ant hill, close, one), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hill	det
4	ant	ant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hill	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 ant	punct
6	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thing	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 thing	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 thing	det
9	loftiest	lofty	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 thing	amod
10	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	ccomp
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 world	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 world	det
13	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thing	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 close	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 close	cc
16	yet	yet	ADV	_	17 close	advmod
17	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 stood	nsubj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 mound	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 mound	det
20	mound	mound	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 close	obl
21	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 tree	det
23	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 tree	amod
24	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stood	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 deny	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 deny	obj
27	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 one	det
28	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 deny	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 deny	aux
30	deny	deny	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 tree	acl:relcl
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 loftier	cop
32	loftier	lofty	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	30 deny	xcomp
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 loftier	punct
34	much	much	ADV	_	35 loftier	advmod
35	loftier	lofty	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	32 loftier	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 made	punct
37	but	but	CCONJ	_	41 made	cc
38	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	39 mention	det
39	mention	mention	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 made	nsubj:pass
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 made	aux:pass
41	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 said	conj
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 tree	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 tree	det
44	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 made	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	working				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a	past	the ant hill	the loftiest thing	the world		tree rules
3	stand	past	close	a tall tree			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus
4	deny	could	no one	a tall tree			vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality
5	is	past	no one not said here			lofty property	tree rules
6	be		no one not said here				tree rules
7	make	past · passive		no mention		of the tree	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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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