grisly

Who acts: you, grisly giant, cave, story, grisly ending · What happens: cause, not confuse, laugh, hold, have, give · To what, where: horror, bones, grisly ending, nightmares, us

«grisly» in the school dictionary: its meaning 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: grisly in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Causing horror and disgust; very gruesome, often with death, blood or bones. Do not confuse with «grizzly» (a bear, or grey-haired).

Sentence 1: Causing horror and disgust; very gruesome, often with death, blood or bones.

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Causing	cause	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	horror	horror	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Causing	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 disgust	cc
4	disgust	disgust	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 horror	conj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 gruesome	punct
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 gruesome	advmod
7	gruesome	gruesome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Causing	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 death	punct
9	often	often	ADV	_	11 death	advmod
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 death	case
11	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gruesome	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 blood	punct
13	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 death	conj
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 bones	cc
15	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 death	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Causing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	gerund		horror and disgust					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition horror=Patient

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.

Sentence 2: Do not confuse with «grizzly» (a bear, or grey-haired).

The tree, 10 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 confuse	aux
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 confuse	advmod
3	confuse	confuse	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 grizzly	case
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 grizzly	punct
6	grizzly	grizzly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 confuse	obl
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 grizzly	punct
8	(	(	PUNCT	_	10 bear	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bear	det
10	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grizzly	appos
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 haired	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 haired	cc
13	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 haired	amod
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 grey	punct
15	haired	haired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bear	acl:relcl
16	)	)	PUNCT	_	10 bear	punct
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 confuse	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not confuse	imperative · do-support	you not said here					with grizzly	vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with grizzly=Co-Patient

Example 1

The grisly giant laughed in the dark.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 giant	det
2	grisly	grisly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 giant	amod
3	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 laughed	nsubj
4	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 dark	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dark	det
7	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 laughed	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 laughed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	the grisly giant					in the dark	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in dark=Theme

Example 2

The cave held grisly bones.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cave	det
2	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 cave	acl
4	grisly	grisly	ADV	_	5 bones	advmod
5	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 held	obl
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 cave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	participle	the cave not said here	bones					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Example 3

The story had a grisly ending that gave us nightmares.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 story	det
2	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 ending	det
5	grisly	grisly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ending	amod
6	ending	ending	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 gave	nsubj
8	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ending	acl:relcl
9	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 gave	iobj
10	nightmares	nightmare	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 gave	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the story	a grisly ending					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ending=Patient
2	give	past	a grisly ending	nightmares	us				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient nightmare=Theme

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