verandah
Who acts: roofed floor, Helga, she, rose bushes · What happens: roof, open, stand, stand together, conceal, step · To what, where: air, verandah, flowers, strange warriors
«verandah» 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: verandah in the Early Modern English dictionary.
Meaning 1
A roofed floor along the outside of a house, open to the air.
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 floor | det |
| 2 | roofed | roof | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 floor | amod |
| 3 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 open | nsubj |
| 4 | along | along | ADP | _ | 6 outside | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 outside | det |
| 6 | outside | outside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 floor | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 house | det |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 outside | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 floor | punct |
| 11 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 air | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 air | det |
| 14 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 open | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 open | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roof | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | open | infinitive | a roofed floor along the outside of a house | the air | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to air=Recipient |
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
Then Helga stood again in the verandah.
From Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 stood | advmod |
| 2 | Helga | Helga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 stood | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 verandah | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 verandah | det |
| 7 | verandah | verandah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Helga | the verandah | then; again | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in verandah=Location |
Example 2
In the verandah, among the flowers, she and George stood together; the rose-bushes concealed them.
From Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen.
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 verandah | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 verandah | det |
| 3 | verandah | verandah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stood | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 flowers | punct |
| 5 | among | among | ADP | _ | 7 flowers | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 flowers | det |
| 7 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 verandah | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 verandah | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 stood | nsubj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 George | cc |
| 11 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 she | conj |
| 12 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | together | together | ADV | _ | 12 stood | advmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 concealed | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bushes | det |
| 16 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bushes | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 rose | punct |
| 18 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 concealed | nsubj |
| 19 | concealed | conceal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 stood | conj |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 concealed | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 stood | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand together | past | she | the verandah and the flowers | together property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in verandah=Location | |||
| 2 | conceal | past | the rose bushes | flowers = flower | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
Example 3
She stepped from the verandah through the empty hall into the next chamber, where slept strange warriors.
From Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen.
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stepped | nsubj |
| 2 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 verandah | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 verandah | det |
| 5 | verandah | verandah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stepped | obl |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 hall | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hall | det |
| 8 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hall | amod |
| 9 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stepped | obl |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 chamber | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 chamber | det |
| 12 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 chamber | amod |
| 13 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stepped | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 slept | punct |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 slept | advmod |
| 16 | slept | sleep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 chamber | acl:relcl |
| 17 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 warriors | amod |
| 18 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 slept | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stepped | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step | past | She | the verandah | through the empty hall; into the next chamber | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into chamber=Destination | |||
| 2 | sleep | participle | strange warriors | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warrior=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/V/verandah/