benefactress

Who acts: benefactress, woman girl, hungry boy, I, good queen · What happens: be, help, give, thank, not let, come · To what, where: woman girl, others, gifts, kind benefactress, benefactress

«benefactress» 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: benefactress in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A benefactress is a woman or girl who helps others by giving gifts or kindness.

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 benefactress	det
2	benefactress	benefactress	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 girl	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 girl	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 woman	det
5	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 girl	compound
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 girl	cc
7	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 helps	nsubj
9	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 girl	acl:relcl
10	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 helps	obj
11	by	by	SCONJ	_	12 giving	mark
12	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 helps	advcl
13	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 giving	obj
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 kindness	cc
15	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gifts	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 girl	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	a benefactress	woman girl	tree rules
2	help	present	woman girl	others	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Beneficiary
3	give	gerund	woman girl not said here	gifts or kindness	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Theme

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 hungry boy thanked his kind benefactress.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
2	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boy	amod
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thanked	nsubj
4	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 benefactress	nmod:poss
6	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 benefactress	amod
7	benefactress	benefactress	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thanked	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thanked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	past	the hungry boy	boy's kind benefactress					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent benefactress=Theme

Example 2

I would never let my benefactress come to harm.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 let	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 let	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 let	advmod
4	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 benefactress	nmod:poss
6	benefactress	benefactress	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 let	obj
7	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	xcomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 harm	mark
9	harm	harm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 come	xcomp
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not let	would	I	my benefactress	tree rules
2	come	infinitive	my benefactress not said here		tree rules
3	harm	to-infinitive	my benefactress not said here		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Example 3

The good queen was a benefactress to the poor.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 queen	det
2	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 queen	amod
3	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 benefactress	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 benefactress	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 benefactress	det
6	benefactress	benefactress	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 poor	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 poor	det
9	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 benefactress	nmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 benefactress	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the good queen	a benefactress				to the poor	tree rules

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