laughingly
Who acts: she, monkey, He · What happens: mean, laugh, tease, catch, say, reply · To what, where: me, coin · Speech: someone speaks here
«laughingly» 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: laughingly in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
Laughingly means while laughing, or in a playful, teasing way.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Laughingly | laughingly | ADV | _ | 2 means | advmod |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 laughing | mark |
| 4 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 means | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 way | punct |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 way | cc |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 way | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 way | det |
| 9 | playful | playful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 way | amod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 teasing | punct |
| 11 | teasing | tease | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 way | amod |
| 12 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 laughing | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 means | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | laughingly property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | laugh | gerund | in a playful teasing way | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in way=Theme | |||||
| 3 | tease | gerund | vn ferret-35.6 «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.
Example 1
«Catch me!» she said laughingly.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 2 Catch | punct |
| 2 | Catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Catch | obj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Catch | punct |
| 5 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 Catch | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | laughingly | laughingly | ADV | _ | 7 said | advmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch in a quote | infinitive | me | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | she | laughingly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
Example 2
The monkey replied laughingly.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 monkey | det |
| 2 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | laughingly | laughingly | ADV | _ | 3 replied | advmod |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 replied | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the monkey | laughingly property | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Example 3
He laughingly gave the coin away.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | laughingly | laughingly | ADV | _ | 3 gave | advmod |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 coin | det |
| 5 | coin | coin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 gave | advmod |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give away | past | He | the coin | away, laughingly property | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent coin=Theme |
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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