Who acts: birds, cat, Toad, We, he, small boy · What happens: drag, hang, climb, draggl, come, look · To what, where: mud, pool, long skirt, lane, draggled sight, river · Speech: someone speaks here
«draggled» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings for a pupil and its 7 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: draggled in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
Wet, muddy and untidy, especially after being dragged through mud or rain.
The tree, 12 wordsThe words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Wet
wet
ADJ
Degree=Pos
root
root
2
,
,
PUNCT
_
3 muddy
punct
3
muddy
muddy
ADJ
Degree=Pos
1 Wet
conj
4
and
and
CCONJ
_
5 untidy
cc
5
untidy
untidy
ADJ
Degree=Pos
1 Wet
conj
6
,
,
PUNCT
_
10 dragged
punct
7
especially
especially
ADV
_
10 dragged
advmod
8
after
after
SCONJ
_
10 dragged
mark
9
being
be
AUX
Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part
10 dragged
aux:pass
10
dragged
drag
VERB
Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass
1 Wet
conj
11
through
through
ADP
_
12 mud
case
12
mud
mud
NOUN
Number=Sing
10 dragged
obl
13
or
or
CCONJ
_
14 rain
cc
14
rain
rain
NOUN
Number=Sing
12 mud
conj
15
.
.
PUNCT
_
1 Wet
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
drag
gerund · passive
mud or rain
especially property
vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: through mud=Location
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.
Meaning 2
Hanging limp and dirty, like the bottom of a long skirt or a bird's wet feathers.
The tree, 17 wordsThe words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Hanging
hang
VERB
Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part
root
root
2
limp
limp
ADJ
Degree=Pos
1 Hanging
xcomp
3
and
and
CCONJ
_
4 dirty
cc
4
dirty
dirty
ADJ
Degree=Pos
2 limp
conj
5
,
,
PUNCT
_
8 bottom
punct
6
like
like
ADP
_
8 bottom
case
7
the
the
DET
Definite=Def PronType=Art
8 bottom
det
8
bottom
bottom
NOUN
Number=Sing
1 Hanging
obl
9
of
of
ADP
_
12 skirt
case
10
a
a
DET
Definite=Ind PronType=Art
12 skirt
det
11
long
long
ADJ
Degree=Pos
12 skirt
amod
12
skirt
skirt
NOUN
Number=Sing
8 bottom
nmod
13
or
or
CCONJ
_
18 feathers
cc
14
a
a
DET
Definite=Ind PronType=Art
15 bird
det
15
bird
bird
NOUN
Number=Sing
18 feathers
nmod:poss
16
's
's
PART
_
15 bird
case
17
wet
wet
ADJ
Degree=Pos
18 feathers
amod
18
feathers
feather
NOUN
Number=Plur
12 skirt
conj
19
.
.
PUNCT
_
1 Hanging
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
hang
gerund
like the bottom of a long skirt or a bird's wet feathers; limp property
vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
Example 1
The birds climbed out of the pool with draggled feathers.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
The
the
DET
Definite=Def PronType=Art
2 birds
det
2
birds
bird
NOUN
Number=Plur
3 climbed
nsubj
3
climbed
climb
VERB
Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin
root
root
4
out
out
ADP
_
7 pool
case
5
of
of
ADP
_
7 pool
case
6
the
the
DET
Definite=Def PronType=Art
7 pool
det
7
pool
pool
NOUN
Number=Sing
3 climbed
obl
8
with
with
ADP
_
10 feathers
case
9
draggled
draggl
VERB
Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass
10 feathers
amod
10
feathers
feather
NOUN
Number=Plur
3 climbed
obl
11
.
.
PUNCT
_
3 climbed
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
climb
past
the birds
the pool
with draggled feathers
vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out pool=Trajectory
2
draggl
participle
tree rules
Example 2
After the storm, the cat came home wet and draggled.
vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from walk=Initial_Location
2
draggl
participle
We not said here
tree rules
Example 7
When he revived, he was lying in the hot sun on the middle of a garden path, very draggled indeed, and a small boy was saying, “Here’s a dead mongoose.
The tree, 31 wordsThe words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sun=Location
3
draggl
participle
he not said here
indeed property
tree rules
4
sayspeech: assert
past · progressive
a small boy
vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5
isin a quote
present
a dead mongoose
here property
tree rules
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.