Who acts: old attic, you, window, We, museum, school · What happens: smell, shut up, open, be, find, have · To what, where: room, window, fusty old books, trunk, fusty old rules, cupboard
«fusty» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings for a pupil and its 6 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: fusty in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
Smelling stale, damp and old, like a room shut up for a long time.
The tree, 14 wordsThe words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Smelling
smell
VERB
VerbForm=Ger
10 room
csubj
2
stale
stale
ADJ
Degree=Pos
1 Smelling
xcomp
3
,
,
PUNCT
_
4 damp
punct
4
damp
damp
ADJ
Degree=Pos
2 stale
conj
5
and
and
CCONJ
_
6 old
cc
6
old
old
ADJ
Degree=Pos
2 stale
conj
7
,
,
PUNCT
_
10 room
punct
8
like
like
ADP
_
10 room
case
9
a
a
DET
Definite=Ind PronType=Art
10 room
det
10
room
room
NOUN
Number=Sing
root
root
11
shut
shut
VERB
Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass
10 room
acl
12
up
up
ADP
_
11 shut
compound:prt
13
for
for
ADP
_
16 time
case
14
a
a
DET
Definite=Ind PronType=Art
16 time
det
15
long
long
ADJ
Degree=Pos
16 time
amod
16
time
time
NOUN
Number=Sing
11 shut
obl
17
.
.
PUNCT
_
10 room
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
smell
gerund
stale property
vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2
shut up
participle
a room not said here
time
vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
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
Old-fashioned and dull in ideas: «fusty old rules».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Old
old
ADJ
Degree=Pos
3 fashioned
amod
2
-
-
PUNCT
_
1 Old
punct
3
fashioned
fashioned
ADJ
Degree=Pos
root
root
4
and
and
CCONJ
_
5 dull
cc
5
dull
dull
ADJ
Degree=Pos
3 fashioned
conj
6
in
in
ADP
_
7 ideas
case
7
ideas
idea
NOUN
Number=Plur
5 dull
obl
8
:
:
PUNCT
_
12 rules
punct
9
«
«
PUNCT
_
12 rules
punct
10
fusty
fusty
ADJ
Degree=Pos
12 rules
amod
11
old
old
ADJ
Degree=Pos
12 rules
amod
12
rules
rule
NOUN
Number=Plur
7 ideas
appos
13
»
»
PUNCT
_
12 rules
punct
14
.
.
PUNCT
_
3 fashioned
punct
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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.