casket

Who acts: casket, queen · What happens: be, hold, keep, lock · To what, where: small box, jewels, rings, golden casket, casket

«casket» 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: casket in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A casket is a small box, often fine and valuable, for holding jewels or other precious things.

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 casket	det
2	casket	casket	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 box	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 box	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 box	det
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 box	amod
6	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fine	punct
8	often	often	ADV	_	9 fine	advmod
9	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 box	amod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 valuable	cc
11	valuable	valuable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fine	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 holding	punct
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 holding	mark
14	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 fine	advcl
15	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 holding	obj
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 things	cc
17	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 things	amod
18	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 things	amod
19	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 jewels	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 box	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a casket	a small box					tree rules
2	hold	gerund	a casket not said here	jewels or other precious things					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jewel=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 queen kept her rings in a golden casket.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 queen	det
2	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kept	nsubj
3	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 rings	nmod:poss
5	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 kept	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 casket	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 casket	det
8	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 casket	amod
9	casket	casket	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kept	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 kept	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the queen	queen's rings		a golden casket			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ring=Theme in casket=Location

Example 2

The casket was locked with a silver key.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 casket	det
2	casket	casket	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 locked	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 locked	aux:pass
4	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 key	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 key	det
7	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 key	amod
8	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 locked	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 locked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lock	past · passive		the casket				with a silver key	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with key=Instrument

Example 3

The casket was splendid, but it was empty.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 casket	det
2	casket	casket	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 splendid	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 splendid	cop
4	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 empty	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 empty	cc
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 empty	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 empty	cop
9	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 splendid	conj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 splendid	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the casket					splendid property	tree rules
2	is	past	casket					empty property	tree rules

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