beseeching

Who acts: you, beseeching eyes · What happens: ask, plead, not open, cry, beseech, beg · To what, where: begging, way, door, beseeching voice · Speech: someone speaks here

«beseeching» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 2 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: beseeching in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Asking in a begging, pleading way.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 begging	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 begging	det
4	begging	begging	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Asking	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 pleading	punct
6	pleading	plead	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Asking	conj
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pleading	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Asking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	gerund				a begging			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	plead speech: request	gerund		way					tree rules

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

«Won't you open the door?» cried Pinocchio in a beseeching voice.

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 open	punct
2	Wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 open	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 open	advmod
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 open	nsubj
5	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 cried	parataxis
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 door	det
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 open	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 open	punct
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 open	punct
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Pinocchio	Pinocchio	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 cried	flat
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 voice	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 voice	det
14	beseeching	beseech	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 voice	amod
15	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cried	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not open in a quote	future	you	the door		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
2	cry speech: express	past			a beseeching voice	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	beseech	gerund				tree rules

Example 2

His beseeching eyes begged for food.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 eyes	nmod:poss
2	beseeching	beseech	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 eyes	amod
3	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 begged	nsubj
4	begged	beg	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 food	case
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 begged	obl
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 begged	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beseech	gerund							tree rules
2	beg speech: request	participle	His beseeching eyes					for food	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for food=Topic

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