alabaster

Who acts: Alabaster, skin · What happens: be, carve, decorate, look · To what, where: statues, statue, white alabaster, castle

«alabaster» in the school 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: alabaster in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Alabaster is a smooth, pale, shiny white stone, often carved into statues and vases.

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Alabaster	alabaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 smooth	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 smooth	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 smooth	det
4	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 pale	punct
6	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 smooth	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 stone	punct
8	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stone	amod
9	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stone	amod
10	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 smooth	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 carved	punct
12	often	often	ADV	_	13 carved	advmod
13	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 smooth	conj
14	into	into	ADP	_	15 statues	case
15	statues	statue	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 carved	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 vases	cc
17	vases	vas	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 statues	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 smooth	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Alabaster		smooth property	tree rules
2	be		Alabaster not said here			tree rules
3	carve	participle	Alabaster not said here	statues and vases	often property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 statue was carved from white alabaster.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 statue	det
2	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 carved	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 carved	aux:pass
4	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 alabaster	case
6	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 alabaster	amod
7	alabaster	alabaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 carved	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 carved	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carve	past · passive		the statue		white alabaster			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from alabaster=Material

Example 2

The castle was decorated with alabaster statues.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 castle	det
2	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 decorated	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 decorated	aux:pass
4	decorated	decorate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 statues	case
6	alabaster	alabaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 statues	compound
7	statues	statue	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 decorated	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 decorated	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decorate	past · passive		the castle				with alabaster statues	vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with statue=Theme

Example 3

Her skin looked as smooth as alabaster.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 skin	nmod:poss
2	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	as	as	ADV	_	5 smooth	advmod
5	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 looked	xcomp
6	as	as	ADP	_	7 alabaster	case
7	alabaster	alabaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 smooth	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	Her skin					smooth property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Text: the school dictionary of Mova's schools (world/data/dictionary-schools/), written for Mova. 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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