astonish

Who acts: they, wise answers, Your, magic, You · What happens: surprise, not believe, astonish, answer · To what, where: someone, it, me, crowd

«astonish» 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: astonish in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

To surprise someone so much that they cannot quite believe it.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 surprise	mark
2	surprise	surprise	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 surprise	obj
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADV	_	2 surprise	advmod
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 believe	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 believe	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 believe	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 believe	advmod
10	quite	quite	ADV	_	11 believe	advmod
11	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 much	advcl
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 believe	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 surprise	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	surprise	to-infinitive		someone					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus someone=Experiencer
2	not believe	can	they	it					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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

Your wise answers astonish me.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 answers	nmod:poss
2	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 answers	amod
3	answers	answer	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 astonish	nsubj
4	astonish	astonish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 astonish	obj
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 astonish	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	astonish	present	Your wise answers	me					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer
2	answer		Your						nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Example 2

The magic astonished the crowd.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 magic	det
2	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 astonished	nsubj
3	astonished	astonish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 crowd	det
5	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 astonished	obj
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 astonished	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	astonish	past	the magic	the crowd					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus crowd=Experiencer

Example 3

You astonish me, Madam!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 astonish	nsubj
2	astonish	astonish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 astonish	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Madam	punct
5	Madam	Madam	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 astonish	vocative
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 astonish	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	astonish	present	You	me				Madam vocative	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer

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