sullen

Who acts: Sullen, He, She, sullen boy · What happens: mean, temper, not want, talk, smile, give · To what, where: sullen look

«sullen» 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: sullen in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Sullen means quiet and bad-tempered, not wanting to talk or smile.

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sullen	Sullen	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 tempered	cc
5	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tempered	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 bad	punct
7	tempered	temper	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 means	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wanting	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 wanting	advmod
10	wanting	want	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 tempered	advcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 talk	mark
12	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 wanting	xcomp
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 smile	cc
14	smile	smile	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 talk	conj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Sullen	quiet property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	temper	participle	Sullen not said here		tree rules
3	not want	gerund	Sullen not said here		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	talk not said to happen	to-infinitive	Sullen not said here		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	smile	infinitive	Sullen not said here		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP 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 gave a sullen look.

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 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 look	det
4	sullen	sullen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 look	amod
5	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	He	a sullen look					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Theme

Example 2

She was sullen all morning after the argument.

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 sullen	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sullen	cop
3	sullen	sullen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 morning	det
5	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sullen	obl:unmarked
6	after	after	ADP	_	8 argument	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 argument	det
8	argument	argument	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sullen	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sullen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She				after the argument; morning	sullen property	tree rules

Example 3

The sullen boy would not answer.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
2	sullen	sullen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boy	amod
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 answer	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 answer	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 answer	advmod
6	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 answer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not answer speech: assert	would	the sullen boy						vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: 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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