fondle

Who acts: she, old woman · What happens: fondle, be, stroke, kiss, begin · To what, where: someone, them, child, Prince

«fondle» 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: fondle in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

To fondle someone is to touch or stroke them gently and lovingly.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 fondle	mark
2	fondle	fondle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 touch	advcl
3	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 fondle	obj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 touch	cop
5	to	to	PART	_	6 touch	mark
6	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 stroke	cc
8	stroke	stroke	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 touch	conj
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stroke	obj
10	gently	gently	ADV	_	8 stroke	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 lovingly	cc
12	lovingly	lovingly	ADV	_	10 gently	conj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 touch	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fondle	to-infinitive	someone		vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Experiencer
2	is	present		touch property	tree rules
3	stroke	infinitive	them = they	gently property	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Experiencer

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

Then she kissed and fondled her child.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 kissed	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kissed	nsubj
3	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 fondled	cc
5	fondled	fondle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 kissed	conj
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 child	nmod:poss
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fondled	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 kissed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kiss	past	she				then		vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fondle	past	she not said here	her child					vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Experiencer

Example 2

The old woman began to fondle the Prince with the utmost delight.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 fondle	mark
6	fondle	fondle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Prince	det
8	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 fondle	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 delight	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 delight	det
11	utmost	utmost	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 delight	amod
12	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fondle	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the old woman						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	fondle	to-infinitive	the old woman not said here	the Prince				with the utmost delight	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent prince=Experiencer with delight=Instrument

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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