---
title: The Maidens rode--that is, they were put in a wheelbarrow, and that… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Two Maidens, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/200/23/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [Two Maidens](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/200/) / 23

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The Maidens rode--that is, they were put in a wheelbarrow, and that was a distinction; but still they were called "hand-rammers."

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Maidens, that · **What happens:** ride, put, be, call · **To what, where:** that, chips, wheelbarrow, distinction · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
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.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg27200:200:23
# text = The Maidens rode--that is, they were put in a wheelbarrow, and that was a distinction; but still they were called "hand-rammers."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Maidens	Maiden	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	obj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	wheelbarrow	wheelbarrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	distinction	distinction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	still	still	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	rammers	rammer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to 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 |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/200/22/)
- next →: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/200/24/)
- ↑ back to [Two Maidens](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/200/)