cretin

Who acts: serious illness, mind, poor cretin, Valais, French soldiers, soldiers · What happens: bear, stop, grow, creep away, see, follow · To what, where: person, body, bed, nothing, it, capital doctors

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

Meaning 1

A person born with a serious illness that stops the body and mind growing properly.

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 person	det
2	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 person	acl
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 illness	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 illness	det
6	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 illness	amod
7	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 born	obl
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 stops	nsubj
9	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 illness	acl:relcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 body	det
11	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stops	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 mind	cc
13	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 body	conj
14	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 mind	acl
15	properly	properly	ADV	_	14 growing	advmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 person	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bear	participle		a person not said here	with a serious illness	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
2	stop	present	a serious illness	the body and mind		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality body=Eventuality
3	grow	gerund	mind not said here		properly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

The poor cretin crept away to his bed, and nothing was seen of him during the whole of the following day.

From Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen.

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cretin	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cretin	amod
3	cretin	cretin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crept	nsubj
4	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 crept	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 bed	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 bed	nmod:poss
8	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crept	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 seen	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 seen	cc
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 seen	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 seen	aux:pass
13	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 crept	advcl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 seen	obl
16	during	during	ADP	_	18 whole	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 whole	det
18	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 seen	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 day	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 day	det
21	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 day	amod
22	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 whole	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 crept	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	creep away	past	the poor cretin		cretin's bed		away property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to bed=Destination
2	see	past · passive		nothing		during the whole	of cretin	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
3	follow	gerund						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Example 2

Valais was then, as he expressed it, only a closed-up bag, quite full of sick people, miserable cretins; but the French soldiers came, and they were capital doctors, they soon killed the disease and the sick people, too.

From Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen.

The tree, 39 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Valais	Valais	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 then	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 then	cop
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 expressed	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 expressed	punct
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 expressed	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 expressed	nsubj
7	expressed	express	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 expressed	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bag	punct
10	only	only	ADV	_	15 bag	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 bag	det
12	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 bag	amod
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 up	punct
14	up	up	ADP	_	12 closed	compound:prt
15	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 expressed	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 full	punct
17	quite	quite	ADV	_	18 full	advmod
18	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 expressed	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 people	case
20	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 people	amod
21	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 full	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 cretins	punct
23	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 cretins	amod
24	cretins	cretin	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 people	conj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 came	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 came	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 soldiers	det
28	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 soldiers	amod
29	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 came	nsubj
30	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 expressed	parataxis
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 doctors	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 doctors	cc
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 doctors	nsubj
34	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 doctors	cop
35	capital	capital	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 doctors	amod
36	doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 came	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 killed	punct
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 killed	nsubj
39	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	40 killed	advmod
40	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 came	conj
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 disease	det
42	disease	disease	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 killed	obj
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 people	cc
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 people	det
45	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 people	amod
46	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 disease	conj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 too	punct
48	too	too	ADV	_	40 killed	advmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 expressed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Valais		then property	tree rules
2	express	past	Valais	it	a closed bag obl	vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	close up	participle				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	come	past	the French soldiers			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is a	past	soldiers = soldier	capital doctors		tree rules
6	kill	past	soldiers = soldier	the disease and the sick people	soon property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disease=Theme

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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