novelist

Who acts: person, novels, aunt, novelist, Many novelists · What happens: write, make up, be · To what, where: novels, long made stories, novelist, story

«novelist» 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: novelist in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A person who writes novels, which are long made-up stories.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 person	det
2	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 writes	nsubj
4	writes	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 person	acl:relcl
5	novels	novel	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 writes	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stories	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 stories	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 stories	cop
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 stories	amod
10	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 stories	amod
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 up	punct
12	up	up	ADP	_	10 made	compound:prt
13	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 novels	conj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 person	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	write	present	a person	novels and long made stories	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent novel=Theme
2	make up	participle			vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
3	is a	present	novels and long made stories	long made stories	tree rules

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

My aunt is a novelist.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 aunt	nmod:poss
2	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 novelist	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 novelist	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 novelist	det
5	novelist	novelist	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 novelist	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	My aunt	a novelist					tree rules

Example 2

The novelist wrote a story about a brave girl.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 novelist	det
2	novelist	novelist	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wrote	nsubj
3	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 story	det
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wrote	obj
6	about	about	ADP	_	9 girl	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 girl	det
8	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 girl	amod
9	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 story	nmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wrote	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past	the novelist	a story				about a brave girl	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent story=Recipient about girl=Topic

Example 3

Many novelists write for children.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 novelists	amod
2	novelists	novelist	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 write	nsubj
3	write	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 children	case
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 write	obl
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 write	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	present	Many novelists					for children	vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for child=Beneficiary

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