Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Two Maidens, sentence 2

I mean what our pavers call a maiden, a thing with which they ram down the paving-stones in the roads.

Who acts: I, pavers · What happens: mean, call, ram · To what, where: maiden, roads · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Two Maidens. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, pavers), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 mean	nsubj
2	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 call	obj
4	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 pavers	nmod:poss
5	pavers	paver	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 call	nsubj
6	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 mean	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 maiden	det
8	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 call	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 thing	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 thing	det
11	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 maiden	appos
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 which	case
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 ram	obl
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 ram	nsubj
15	ram	ram	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 thing	acl:relcl
16	down	down	ADP	_	20 stones	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 stones	det
18	paving	paving	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stones	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 paving	punct
20	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 ram	obl
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 roads	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 roads	det
23	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 ram	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 mean	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mean	present	I				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	call	present	our pavers	a maiden			vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme maiden=Result
3	ram	present	pavers = paver		the roads	with a thing; down the paving stones	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent down stone=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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