damsel

Who acts: damsel, mistress · What happens: need, sob, sing, take, do, bid · To what, where: hero, damsel, flask, bidding

«damsel» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 3 examples, every sentence parsed by Mova itself — its syntax tree, a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, and its pragmatics clause by clause. The word in the dictionary, with its sense in the lessons: damsel in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Usage: old use — kept apart, not parsed.

A young unmarried woman or girl; in old stories a maiden, often in trouble and needing a hero.

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 woman	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
3	unmarried	unmarried	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stories	nsubj
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 girl	cc
6	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 woman	conj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 stories	punct
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 stories	case
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stories	amod
10	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 maiden	det
12	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stories	appos
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 trouble	punct
14	often	often	ADV	_	16 trouble	advmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 trouble	case
16	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stories	parataxis
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 needing	cc
18	needing	need	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 trouble	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 hero	det
20	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 needing	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 stories	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	gerund		a hero					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot hero=Theme

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.

Example 1

The damsel sobbed and sang all night.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 damsel	det
2	damsel	damsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sang	nsubj
3	sobbed	sob	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 damsel	acl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 sobbed	cc
5	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 night	det
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sang	obl:unmarked
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sang	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sob	participle		the damsel not said here					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sing speech: express	past	the damsel				night		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Example 2

How now, fair damsel!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 now	advmod
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 damsel	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 now	punct
4	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 damsel	amod
5	damsel	damsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 damsel	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Example 3

The damsel took the flask and did her mistress's bidding.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 damsel	det
2	damsel	damsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 flask	det
5	flask	flask	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 did	cc
7	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mistress	nmod:poss
9	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bidding	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 mistress	case
11	bidding	bidding	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 did	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	take	past	the damsel	the flask	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flask=Theme
2	do	past	the damsel not said here	damsel's mistress's bidding	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bidding=Eventuality
3	bid		damsel's mistress		nom bidding «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Text: the school dictionary of Mova's schools (world/data/dictionary-schools/), written for Mova. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each meaning and example read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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