drowse

Who acts: cat, hum, children, bees, old dog · What happens: drowse, be, mean, slip, begin, make · To what, where: quiet dreamy state, warm sun.

«drowse» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings 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: drowse in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

To drowse is to be sleepy and half asleep.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 drowse	mark
2	drowse	drowse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 sleepy	advcl
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sleepy	cop
4	to	to	PART	_	6 sleepy	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 sleepy	cop
6	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 asleep	cc
8	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	9 asleep	advmod
9	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sleepy	conj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sleepy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	other	roles by
1	drowse	to-infinitive		vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	sleepy property	tree rules
3	be		half property	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.

Meaning 2

Usage: old use — kept apart, not parsed.

To drowse can mean to slip gently into a quiet, dreamy state.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 drowse	mark
2	drowse	drowse	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 mean	aux
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 mean	aux
4	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 slip	mark
6	slip	slip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 mean	xcomp
7	gently	gently	ADV	_	6 slip	advmod
8	into	into	ADP	_	13 state	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 state	det
10	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 state	amod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 quiet	punct
12	dreamy	dreamy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 state	amod
13	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 slip	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	can · infinitive							vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	slip not said to happen	to-infinitive				a quiet dreamy state		gently property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Example 1

The cat began to drowse in the warm sun.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cat	det
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 drowse	mark
5	drowse	drowse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 sun.	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sun.	det
8	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sun.	amod
9	sun.	sun.	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drowse	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the cat						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	drowse	to-infinitive	the cat not said here			the warm sun.			vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Example 2

The hum of bees made the children drowse.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hum	det
2	hum	hum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 bees	case
4	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hum	nmod
5	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 children	det
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 drowse	nsubj
8	drowse	drowse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 made	ccomp
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	make	past	the hum of bees	tree rules
2	drowse	present	the children	vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hum		bees	nom hum «state intransitive»: of=agent

Example 3

The old dog drowsed by the fire all evening.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dog	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dog	amod
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drowsed	nsubj
4	drowsed	drowse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 fire	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fire	det
7	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drowsed	obl
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 evening	det
9	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drowsed	obl:unmarked
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 drowsed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drowse	past	the old dog				evening	by the fire	vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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.

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