palfrey
Who acts: He, I, palfrey · What happens: ride, change, perch, have, saddle · To what, where: gentle horse, old mare, She, forest
«palfrey» 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: palfrey in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
Usage: old use, in fairy tales — kept apart, not parsed.
A gentle horse ridden by a lady or a knight, not a war horse.
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 | 3 horse | det |
| 2 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 horse | amod |
| 3 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | ridden | ride | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 horse | acl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 lady | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 lady | det |
| 7 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ridden | obl |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 knight | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 knight | det |
| 10 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lady | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 horse | punct |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 horse | advmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 horse | det |
| 14 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 horse | compound |
| 15 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lady | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 horse | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | participle | a gentle horse not said here | by a lady or a knight and a war horse | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: 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
He changed the old mare into a brisk piebald palfrey.
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 | 2 changed | nsubj |
| 2 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mare | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 mare | amod |
| 5 | mare | mare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 changed | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 palfrey | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 palfrey | det |
| 8 | brisk | brisk | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 palfrey | amod |
| 9 | piebald | piebald | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 palfrey | amod |
| 10 | palfrey | palfrey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 changed | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 changed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past | He | the old mare | into a brisk piebald palfrey result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent mare=Patient into palfrey=Result |
Example 2
She was perched on a magnificent palfrey.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 perched | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 perched | aux:pass |
| 3 | perched | perch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 palfrey | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 palfrey | det |
| 6 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 palfrey | amod |
| 7 | palfrey | palfrey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 perched | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 perched | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perch | past · passive | She | on a magnificent palfrey | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on palfrey=Destination |
Example 3
I had my palfrey saddled and rode to the forest.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 palfrey | nmod:poss |
| 4 | palfrey | palfrey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saddled | nsubj |
| 5 | saddled | saddle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | ccomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 rode | cc |
| 7 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 forest | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 forest | det |
| 10 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rode | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | saddle | past | my palfrey | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | ride | past | I not said here | the forest | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to forest=Trajectory |
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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