spiteful

Who acts: Spiteful, spiteful creature, spiteful queen, end, He · What happens: mean, want, hurt, annoy, be, lift · To what, where: someone, purpose, crest, bad nature · Speech: someone speaks here

«spiteful» 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: spiteful in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Spiteful means wanting to hurt or annoy someone, and being unkind on purpose.

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spiteful	spiteful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	wanting	want	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 means	ccomp
4	to	to	PART	_	5 hurt	mark
5	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wanting	xcomp
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 annoy	cc
7	annoy	annoy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 hurt	conj
8	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 annoy	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 unkind	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 unkind	cc
11	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 unkind	cop
12	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	conj
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 purpose	case
14	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 unkind	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Spiteful				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	want	gerund					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	hurt not said to happen	to-infinitive					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	annoy	infinitive		someone			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus someone=Experiencer
5	is	gerund	Spiteful not said here		purpose	unkind property	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

The spiteful creature lifted its crest.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 creature	det
2	spiteful	spiteful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 creature	amod
3	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lifted	nsubj
4	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 crest	nmod:poss
6	crest	crest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lifted	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lifted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lift	past	the spiteful creature	creature's crest					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crest=Theme

Example 2

The spiteful queen said, «There's an end of all thy beauty.»

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 queen	det
2	spiteful	spiteful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 queen	amod
3	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 's	punct
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 's	punct
7	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 's	expl
8	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 end	det
10	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 's	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 beauty	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 beauty	det
13	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	14 beauty	nmod:poss
14	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 end	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 's	punct
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 's	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the spiteful queen						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	be in a quote	present	a end of thy beauty			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Example 3

He had a bad and spiteful nature.

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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 nature	det
4	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 nature	amod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 spiteful	cc
6	spiteful	spiteful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bad	conj
7	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	He	a bad nature					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nature=Patient

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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