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title: I mean what our pavers call a maiden, a thing with which they ram do… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Two Maidens, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Two Maidens, sentence 2

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

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

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:200:2
# text = I mean what our pavers call a maiden, a thing with which they ram down the paving-stones in the roads.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	mean	mean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
4	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	pavers	paver	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obl	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	ram	ram	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	down	down	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	paving	paving	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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.

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**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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