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title: handmaiden — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «handmaiden» in the school dictionary: A handmaiden is a young woman servant who waits on a princess or lady; the same as a handmaid. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# handmaiden

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**Who acts:** handmaiden, young woman servant, princess · **What happens:** be, wait, obey, order, send · **To what, where:** young woman servant, order, handmaiden, traveller

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«handmaiden» 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: [handmaiden in the school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/handmaiden.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Usage: old use — kept apart, not parsed.

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A handmaiden is a young woman servant who waits on a princess or lady; the same as a handmaid.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:handmaiden:m1:1
# text = A handmaiden is a young woman servant who waits on a princess or lady; the same as a handmaid.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	handmaiden	handmaiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	waits	wait	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	handmaid	handmaid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a handmaiden | a young woman servant |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wait** | present | a young woman servant |  |  |  |  | on a princess or lady | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on princess=Location |
| 3 | **be** |  | a handmaiden *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as a handmaid | tree rules |

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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 handmaiden obeyed the princess's order.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:handmaiden:x1:1
# text = The handmaiden obeyed the princess's order.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	handmaiden	handmaiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	obeyed	obey	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	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **obey** | past | the handmaiden | the princess's order |  |  |  |  | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme |
| 2 | **order** |  | the princess |  |  |  |  |  | nom order «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The princess sent her handmaiden to the traveller.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:handmaiden:x2:1
# text = The princess sent her handmaiden to the traveller.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	handmaiden	handmaiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	traveller	traveller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | the princess | princess's handmaiden |  | the traveller |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent handmaiden=Theme to traveller=Destination |

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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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