antechamber
Who acts: antechamber, small room, people, guests, She, servant · What happens: be, lead, wait, let in, sit · To what, where: small room, bigger grander room, antechamber, us
«antechamber» 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: antechamber in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
An antechamber is a small room leading into a bigger, grander room, where people wait before being let in.
The tree, 19 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 antechamber | det |
| 2 | antechamber | antechamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 room | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 room | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 room | det |
| 5 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 room | amod |
| 6 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | leading | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 room | acl |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 room | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 room | det |
| 10 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 room | amod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bigger | punct |
| 12 | grander | grand | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 room | amod |
| 13 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 leading | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wait | punct |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 wait | advmod |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 wait | nsubj |
| 17 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 room | parataxis |
| 18 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 20 let | mark |
| 19 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 let | aux:pass |
| 20 | let | let | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 wait | advcl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 let | compound:prt |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 room | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a antechamber | a small room | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lead | gerund | a small room not said here | a bigger grander room | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into room=Destination | ||||
| 3 | wait | present | people | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | let in | gerund · passive | people not said here | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.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
The guests waited in the antechamber.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 guests | det |
| 2 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 waited | nsubj |
| 3 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 antechamber | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 antechamber | det |
| 6 | antechamber | antechamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 waited | obl |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 waited | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | the guests | the antechamber | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in antechamber=Location |
Example 2
She sat in the antechamber of the palace.
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 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 antechamber | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 antechamber | det |
| 5 | antechamber | antechamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sat | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 palace | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 palace | det |
| 8 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 antechamber | nmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sat | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | She | the antechamber of the palace | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in antechamber=Location |
Example 3
The servant led us through the antechamber.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 servant | det |
| 2 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 led | nsubj |
| 3 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 led | obj |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 antechamber | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 antechamber | det |
| 7 | antechamber | antechamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 led | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 led | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | the servant | us | the antechamber | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent we=Theme through antechamber=Destination |
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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