parsley

Who acts: Parsley, you, gardener, Sam · What happens: be, use, flavour, decorate, chop, sprinkle · To what, where: green herb, food, plates, parsley, potatoes, dill

«parsley» 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: parsley in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Parsley is a green herb with curly or flat leaves, used to flavour food and to decorate plates.

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Parsley	Parsley	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 herb	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 herb	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 herb	det
4	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 herb	amod
5	herb	herb	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	10 leaves	case
7	curly	curly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 leaves	amod
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 flat	cc
9	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 curly	conj
10	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 herb	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 used	punct
12	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 herb	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 flavour	mark
14	flavour	flavour	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 used	xcomp
15	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 flavour	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 decorate	cc
17	to	to	PART	_	18 decorate	mark
18	decorate	decorate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 flavour	conj
19	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 decorate	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 herb	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Parsley	a green herb	with curly leaves	tree rules
2	use	participle	Parsley not said here			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	flavour	to-infinitive	Parsley not said here	food		tree rules
4	decorate	to-infinitive	Parsley not said here	plates		vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plate=Destination

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

Chop some parsley and sprinkle it on the potatoes.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chop	chop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 parsley	det
3	parsley	parsley	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Chop	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 sprinkle	cc
5	sprinkle	sprinkle	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Chop	conj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sprinkle	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 potatoes	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 potatoes	det
9	potatoes	potato	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sprinkle	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Chop	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop	imperative	you not said here	some parsley					vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parsley=Patient
2	sprinkle	infinitive	you not said here	parsley		the potatoes			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on potato=Destination

Example 2

The gardener was watering the dill and parsley.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gardener	det
2	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 watering	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 watering	aux
4	watering	water	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dill	det
6	dill	dill	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 watering	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 parsley	cc
8	parsley	parsley	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dill	conj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 watering	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	water	past · progressive	the gardener	the dill and parsley					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent dill=Destination

Example 3

Sam put a sprig of parsley on his plate.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 put	nsubj
2	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 sprig	det
4	sprig	sprig	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 parsley	case
6	parsley	parsley	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sprig	nmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 plate	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 plate	nmod:poss
9	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past	Sam	a sprig of parsley		Sam's plate			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent sprig=Theme on plate=Destination

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