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title: damsel — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «damsel» in the school dictionary: A young unmarried woman or girl; in old stories a maiden, often in trouble and needing a hero. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# damsel

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

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«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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/damsel.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Usage: old use — kept apart, not parsed.

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

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:damsel:m1:1
# text = A young unmarried woman or girl; in old stories a maiden, often in trouble and needing a hero.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	unmarried	unmarried	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	often	often	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	needing	need	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 |

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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 {#x1}

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The damsel sobbed and sang all night.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:damsel:x1:1
# text = The damsel sobbed and sang all night.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	damsel	damsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	sobbed	sob	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
5	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#x2}

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How now, fair damsel!

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:damsel:x2:1
# text = How now, fair damsel!
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	damsel	damsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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

## Example 3 {#x3}

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

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:damsel:x3:1
# text = The damsel took the flask and did her mistress's bidding.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	damsel	damsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	flask	flask	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	bidding	bidding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | 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 |

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**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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