maidservant

Who acts: maidservant, young woman, You · What happens: be, work, go out, take, sweep · To what, where: young woman, world, service, floors

«maidservant» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 2 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: maidservant in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A maidservant is a young woman who works as a servant in a house, cleaning and cooking. Old use.

Sentence 1: A maidservant is a young woman who works as a servant in a house, cleaning and cooking.

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 maidservant	det
2	maidservant	maidservant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 woman	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 woman	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 woman	det
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 woman	amod
6	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 works	nsubj
8	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 woman	acl:relcl
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 servant	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 servant	det
11	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 works	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 house	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 house	det
14	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 works	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 cleaning	punct
16	cleaning	cleaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 house	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 cooking	cc
18	cooking	cooking	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 house	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 woman	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a maidservant	a young woman					tree rules
2	work	present	a young woman					as a servant; in a house and cleaning and cooking	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in house=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.

Sentence 2: Old use.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 use	amod
2	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 use	punct

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

Example 1

You must go out into the world and take service as a maidservant.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 go	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	out	out	ADV	_	3 go	advmod
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 world	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 world	det
7	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 go	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 take	cc
9	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 go	conj
10	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 take	obj
11	as	as	ADP	_	13 maidservant	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 maidservant	det
13	maidservant	maidservant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 take	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out	must	You			the world		out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	take	present	You not said here	service				as a maidservant	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent service=Theme as maidservant=Attribute

Example 2

The maidservant swept the floors every morning.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 maidservant	det
2	maidservant	maidservant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swept	nsubj
3	swept	sweep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 floors	det
5	floors	floor	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 swept	obj
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 morning	det
7	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swept	obl:unmarked
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 swept	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sweep	past	the maidservant	the floors			morning		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme floor=Trajectory

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