allegory

Who acts: allegory, people, tale, wolf, fable · What happens: be, stand, teach · To what, where: story, lesson, allegory, one

«allegory» 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: allegory in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

An allegory is a story in which people, animals or things stand for ideas, to teach a lesson about life.

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 allegory	det
2	allegory	allegory	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 story	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 story	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 story	det
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 which	case
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 stand	obl
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 stand	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 animals	punct
10	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 people	conj
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 things	cc
12	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 people	conj
13	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 story	acl:relcl
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 ideas	case
15	ideas	idea	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 stand	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 teach	punct
17	to	to	PART	_	18 teach	mark
18	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 stand	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 lesson	det
20	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 teach	obj
21	about	about	ADP	_	22 life	case
22	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lesson	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 story	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a allegory	a story			tree rules
2	stand	present	people and animals or things		a story	for ideas	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in which=Location
3	teach speech: other	to-infinitive	people and animals or things not said here	a lesson		about life	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent lesson=Recipient about life=Topic

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 tale is an allegory about honesty.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tale	det
2	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 allegory	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 allegory	cop
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 allegory	det
5	allegory	allegory	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 honesty	case
7	honesty	honesty	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 allegory	nmod
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 allegory	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the tale	a allegory				about honesty	tree rules

Example 2

In the allegory, the wolf stands for greed.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 allegory	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 allegory	det
3	allegory	allegory	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stands	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 allegory	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wolf	det
6	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stands	nsubj
7	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 greed	case
9	greed	greed	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stands	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 stands	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	present	the wolf			the allegory		for greed	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in allegory=Location

Example 3

This fable is one of the earliest moral allegories.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 fable	det
2	fable	fable	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 one	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 one	cop
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 allegories	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 allegories	det
7	earliest	early	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 allegories	amod
8	moral	moral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 allegories	amod
9	allegories	allegory	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 one	nmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 one	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	this fable	one				of the earliest moral allegories	tree rules

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