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title: They were "maidens" among the paver folk, and determined not to give… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Two Maidens, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Two Maidens, sentence 8

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They were "maidens" among the paver folk, and determined not to give up this honorable appellation, and let themselves be miscalled "rammers.

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**Who acts:** women · **What happens:** be, determine, not give up, let, miscall · **To what, where:** maidens, honorable appellation, women · **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 (women), 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:pg27200:200:8
# text = They were "maidens" among the paver folk, and determined not to give up this honorable appellation, and let themselves be miscalled "rammers.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	among	among	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	paver	paver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	determined	determine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
18	honorable	honorable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	appellation	appellation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
23	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	22	obj	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	miscalled	miscall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	xcomp	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	rammers	rammer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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