fledged

Who acts: fledged bird, bird, feathers, young bird, Ivan · What happens: fledge, grow, need, fly, not mean, learn · To what, where: feathers · Speech: someone speaks here

«fledged» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings for a pupil and its 1 example, 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: fledged in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A fledged bird has grown the feathers it needs to fly.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bird	det
2	fledged	fledge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 bird	amod
3	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grown	nsubj
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 grown	aux
5	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 feathers	det
7	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grown	obj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 needs	nsubj
9	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 feathers	acl:relcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 fly	mark
11	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 needs	xcomp
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 grown	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	fledge	participle			tree rules
2	grow	present · perfect	a fledged bird	the feathers	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location feather=Theme
3	need	present	bird	the feathers not said here	tree rules
4	fly not said to happen	to-infinitive	the feathers not said here		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

Meaning 2

«Half-fledged» means not yet fully grown or ready, like a young bird still learning to fly.

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 fledged	punct
2	Half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	4 fledged	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Half	punct
4	fledged	fledge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 means	nsubj
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 fledged	punct
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 means	advmod
8	yet	yet	ADV	_	10 grown	advmod
9	fully	fully	ADV	_	10 grown	advmod
10	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 means	ccomp
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 ready	cc
12	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 grown	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bird	punct
14	like	like	ADP	_	17 bird	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 bird	det
16	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 bird	amod
17	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grown	obl
18	still	still	ADV	_	19 learning	advmod
19	learning	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 bird	acl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 fly	mark
21	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 learning	xcomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	fledge in a quote	participle				tree rules
2	not mean	present				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	grow	participle		yet	like a young bird; fully property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	learn	gerund	a young bird not said here	still		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	fly	to-infinitive	a young bird not said here			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Example 1

But as for the youngest one, Ivan, he was like a half-grown lad or a half-fledged duckling.

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 one	cc
2	as	as	ADV	_	6 one	advmod
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 one	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 one	det
5	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 one	amod
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Ivan	punct
8	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 one	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 lad	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 lad	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 lad	cop
12	like	like	ADP	_	17 lad	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 lad	det
14	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	16 grown	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 half	punct
16	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 lad	amod
17	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 one	parataxis
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 duckling	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 duckling	det
20	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	22 fledged	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 half	punct
22	fledged	fledge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 duckling	amod
23	duckling	duckling	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lad	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 one	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	grow	participle			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	Ivan	like a grown lad or a fledged duckling	tree rules
3	fledge	participle			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.

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