sidle

Who acts: little demon, He, one · What happens: sidle, be, move, avoid, come, sidle up · To what, where: notice, cat, bowl, room

«sidle» 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: sidle in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

To sidle is to walk slowly and sideways, moving quietly and a little shyly, often to avoid notice.

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 sidle	mark
2	sidle	sidle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 walk	csubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 walk	cop
4	to	to	PART	_	5 walk	mark
5	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	5 walk	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sideways	cc
8	sideways	sideways	ADV	_	6 slowly	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 moving	punct
10	moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 walk	advcl
11	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	10 moving	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 shyly	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 little	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 shyly	obl:unmarked
15	shyly	shyly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 moving	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 avoid	punct
17	often	often	ADV	_	19 avoid	advmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 avoid	mark
19	avoid	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 walk	advcl
20	notice	notice	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 avoid	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 walk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sidle	to-infinitive			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present		slowly, walk property	tree rules
3	move	gerund		quietly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	avoid	to-infinitive	notice	often property	vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent notice=Location

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

A little demon came sidling up.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 demon	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 demon	amod
3	demon	demon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	sidling	sidle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 came	advcl
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 sidling	compound:prt
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	a little demon						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sidle up	gerund	a little demon not said here						vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Example 2

The cat sidled up to the bowl of milk.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cat	det
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	sidled	sidle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 cat	acl
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 sidled	compound:prt
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 bowl	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bowl	det
7	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sidled	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 milk	case
9	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bowl	nmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 cat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sidle up	participle		the cat not said here		the bowl of milk			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to bowl=Destination

Example 3

He sidled out of the room when no one was looking.

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 sidled	nsubj
2	sidled	sidle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	6 room	case
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 room	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 room	det
6	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sidled	obl
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 looking	mark
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 one	det
9	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 looking	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 looking	aux
11	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 sidled	advcl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sidled	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sidle	past	He			the room			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out room=Trajectory
2	look	past · progressive	no one						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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