asp

Who acts: wine, fox, asp, you · What happens: be, go on, fall, glide, want, manage · To what, where: venom, road, them · Speech: someone speaks here

«asp» in the Early Modern English 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: asp in the Early Modern English dictionary.

Meaning 1

A small, poisonous snake.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 snake	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 snake	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 small	punct
4	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 snake	amod
5	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 snake	punct

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

Example 1

Their wine is the venom of serpents, and the cruel poison of asps.

From Torah DEU.32.33, JPS 1917.

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 wine	nmod:poss
2	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 venom	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 venom	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 venom	det
5	venom	venom	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 serpents	case
7	serpents	serpent	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 venom	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 poison	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 poison	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 poison	det
11	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 poison	amod
12	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 venom	appos
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 asps	case
14	asps	asp	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 poison	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 venom	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Their wine	the venom				of serpents	tree rules

Example 2

And the fox went on till he nearly fell over an asp who was gliding across the road.

From The Brown Fairy Book.

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 went	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fox	det
3	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	till	till	SCONJ	_	9 fell	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fell	nsubj
8	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	9 fell	advmod
9	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	advcl
10	over	over	ADP	_	12 asp	case
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 asp	det
12	asp	asp	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fell	obl
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 gliding	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 gliding	aux
15	gliding	glide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 asp	acl:relcl
16	across	across	ADP	_	18 road	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 road	det
18	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gliding	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	go on	past	the fox			vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fall	past	fox		over a asp; nearly property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over asp=Location
3	glide	past · progressive	a asp	the road		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across road=Trajectory

Example 3

“Well, if you only want them for a short time, perhaps I could manage,” answered the asp; “but I can’t do without them for long.”

From The Brown Fairy Book.

The tree, 26 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 manage	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	4 if	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 want	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 want	nsubj
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 want	advmod
7	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 manage	advcl
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 want	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 time	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 time	det
11	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 time	amod
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 want	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 want	punct
14	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	17 manage	advmod
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 manage	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 manage	aux
17	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 answered	ccomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 manage	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	17 manage	punct
20	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 asp	det
22	asp	asp	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 answered	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 do	punct
24	“	"	PUNCT	_	29 do	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 do	cc
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 do	nsubj
27	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 do	aux
28	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 do	advmod
29	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 answered	ccomp
30	without	without	ADP	_	31 them	case
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 do	obl
32	for	for	ADP	_	33 long	case
33	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 do	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 do	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	29 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	want a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you	them = they	time		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme
2	manage in a quote	could	the asp = asp			perhaps property	vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	answer speech: assert	past	the asp				tree rules
4	not do in a quote	can	the asp = asp			without them = they	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Text: the Early Modern English dictionary of Mova's schools (world/data/dictionary-schools/), written for Mova; its examples quote public-domain texts. 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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