Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Two Maidens, sentence 8
They were "maidens" among the paver folk, and determined not to give up this honorable appellation, and let themselves be miscalled "rammers.
Who acts: women · What happens: be, determine, not give up, let, miscall · To what, where: maidens, honorable appellation, women · 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 (women), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 maidens | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 maidens | cop |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 maidens | punct |
| 4 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 maidens | punct |
| 6 | among | among | ADP | _ | 9 folk | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 folk | det |
| 8 | paver | paver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 folk | compound |
| 9 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 maidens | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 determined | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 determined | cc |
| 12 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 maidens | parataxis |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 give | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 give | mark |
| 15 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 determined | ccomp |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 give | compound:prt |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 appellation | det |
| 18 | honorable | honorable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 appellation | amod |
| 19 | appellation | appellation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 give | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 let | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 let | cc |
| 22 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 give | conj |
| 23 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 let | obj |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 miscalled | aux:pass |
| 25 | miscalled | miscall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 let | xcomp |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 let | punct |
| 27 | rammers | rammer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 let | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 maidens | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | women = woman | maidens | among the paver folk | tree rules | |||
| 2 | determine | past | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | not give up | to-infinitive | this honorable appellation | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appellation=Source | |||||
| 4 | let | infinitive | women = woman | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | miscall | infinitive · passive | women = woman not said here | tree rules |
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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