swooning
Who acts: Swooning, He, Ring · What happens: mean, faint, fall down, fall, swoon, carry · To what, where: faint, swooning girl
«swooning» 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: swooning in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
Swooning means fainting or falling down in a faint. (old use).
Sentence 1: Swooning means fainting or falling down in a faint.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swooning | swooning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | fainting | faint | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 means | xcomp |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 falling | cc |
| 5 | falling | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 fainting | conj |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 falling | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 faint | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 faint | det |
| 9 | faint | faint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 falling | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 means | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Swooning | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | faint not said to happen | gerund | Swooning not said here | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | fall down | gerund | Swooning not said here | a faint | down property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in faint=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.
Sentence 2: (old use).
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 3 use | punct |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 use | amod |
| 3 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 3 use | punct |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 use | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Example 1
He fell swooning to the ground.
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 fell | nsubj |
| 2 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | swooning | swoon | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 fell | xcomp |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 ground | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ground | det |
| 6 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 swooning | obl |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fell | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | He | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | swoon | gerund | He not said here | to the ground | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
Example 2
Ring was nearly swooning by then.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 swooning | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 swooning | aux |
| 3 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 4 swooning | advmod |
| 4 | swooning | swoon | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 then | case |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 swooning | obl |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 swooning | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swoon | past · progressive | Ring | nearly property | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
Example 3
The swooning girl was carried home.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 2 | swooning | swooning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 girl | compound |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 carried | aux:pass |
| 5 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 carried | advmod |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 carried | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past · passive | the swooning girl | home property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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