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title: The rest of the ants considered this an insult to the whole communit… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The rest of the ants considered this an insult to the whole community; so she was condemned to wear a muzzle and to live in perpetual solitude. Who acts: rest. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, with its dependency tree and th
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 27

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The rest of the ants considered this an insult to the whole community; so she was condemned to wear a muzzle and to live in perpetual solitude.

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**Who acts:** rest · **What happens:** consider, condemn, wear, live · **To what, where:** insult, rest, muzzle, perpetual solitude

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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 (rest), 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:pg27200:180:27
# text = The rest of the ants considered this an insult to the whole community; so she was condemned to wear a muzzle and to live in perpetual solitude.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ants	ant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	considered	consider	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	insult	insult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	community	community	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	condemned	condemn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	wear	wear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	muzzle	muzzle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	perpetual	perpetual	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	solitude	solitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consider** | past | the rest of the ants | this insult |  |  |  | to the whole community | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent insult=Attribute |
| 2 | **condemn** | past · passive |  | rest |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **wear** | to-infinitive |  | a muzzle |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent muzzle=Source |
| 4 | **live** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | perpetual solitude |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in solitude=Location |

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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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