Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Two Maidens, sentence 23

The Maidens rode--that is, they were put in a wheelbarrow, and that was a distinction; but still they were called "hand-rammers."

Who acts: Maidens, that · What happens: ride, put, be, call · To what, where: that, chips, wheelbarrow, distinction · 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 (Maidens, that), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Maidens	det
2	Maidens	Maiden	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 rode	nsubj
3	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	--	--	PUNCT	_	3 rode	punct
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 rode	obj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 that	fixed
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 put	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 put	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 put	aux:pass
10	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 rode	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 wheelbarrow	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 wheelbarrow	det
13	wheelbarrow	wheelbarrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 put	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 distinction	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 distinction	cc
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 distinction	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 distinction	cop
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 distinction	det
19	distinction	distinction	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 put	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 called	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 called	cc
22	still	still	ADV	_	25 called	advmod
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 called	nsubj:pass
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 called	aux:pass
25	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 rode	parataxis
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 rammers	punct
27	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 rammers	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 hand	punct
29	rammers	rammer	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 called	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rode	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 rode	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	past	the Maidens	that				vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme
2	put	past · passive		chips = chip	a wheelbarrow			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in wheelbarrow=Destination
3	is a	past	that	a distinction				tree rules
4	call	past · passive		chips = chip		still	hand rammers obl	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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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