spectre

Who acts: spectre, It, treasure · What happens: be, image, grin, tell, lay · To what, where: ghost, spectre, me · Speech: someone speaks here

«spectre» 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: spectre in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A spectre is a ghost, or a frightening image of a ghost.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 spectre	det
2	spectre	spectre	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ghost	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 ghost	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 ghost	det
5	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 image	punct
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 image	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 image	det
9	frightening	frightening	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 image	amod
10	image	image	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ghost	appos
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 ghost	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 ghost	det
13	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 image	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ghost	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a spectre	a ghost					tree rules
2	image			a ghost					nom image «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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

It was the spectre of her child.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spectre	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spectre	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 spectre	det
4	spectre	spectre	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 child	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 child	nmod:poss
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spectre	nmod
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 spectre	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	the spectre				of her child	tree rules

Example 2

The spectre grinned at me.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 spectre	det
2	spectre	spectre	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grinned	nsubj
3	grinned	grin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 me	case
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 grinned	obl
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grinned	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grin	past	the spectre					at me	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Example 3

The spectre told me where the treasure lay.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 spectre	det
2	spectre	spectre	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 lay	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 treasure	det
7	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lay	nsubj
8	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	advcl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the spectre		me				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	lay	infinitive	the treasure						vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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