harridan

Who acts: harridan, fierce tempered old woman, Nobody · What happens: temper, be, scold, frighten, frown, dare · To what, where: fierce tempered old woman, people, harridan

«harridan» 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: harridan in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A harridan is a fierce, bad-tempered old woman who scolds and frightens people.

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 harridan	det
2	harridan	harridan	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 woman	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 woman	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 woman	det
5	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 woman	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fierce	punct
7	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tempered	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 bad	punct
9	tempered	temper	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 woman	amod
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 woman	amod
11	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 scolds	nsubj
13	scolds	scold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 woman	acl:relcl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 frightens	cc
15	frightens	frighten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 scolds	conj
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 frightens	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 woman	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	temper	participle			tree rules
2	is a	present	a harridan	a fierce tempered old woman	tree rules
3	scold	present	a fierce tempered old woman		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	frighten	present	a fierce tempered old woman not said here	people	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=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

The harridan frowned at the brave men.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 harridan	det
2	harridan	harridan	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	frowned	frown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 harridan	acl
4	at	at	ADP	_	7 men	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 men	det
6	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 men	amod
7	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 frowned	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 harridan	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	frown	participle		the harridan not said here				at the brave men	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Example 2

Nobody dared to argue with the harridan.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 dared	nsubj
2	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 argue	mark
4	argue	argue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 dared	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 harridan	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 harridan	det
7	harridan	harridan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 argue	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 dared	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dare	past	Nobody						vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	argue speech: disagree	to-infinitive	Nobody not said here					with the harridan	vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with harridan=Co-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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