tenderly
Who acts: Tenderly, She, he · What happens: mean, kiss, come, say, hold · To what, where: love, baby, bird · Speech: someone speaks here
«tenderly» 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: tenderly in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
Tenderly means gently and with love or kindness.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tenderly | Tenderly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 6 love | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 love | cc |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 love | case |
| 6 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | obj |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 kindness | cc |
| 8 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 love | conj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 means | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Tenderly | love or kindness | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Topic |
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
She kissed the baby tenderly.
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 | 2 kissed | nsubj |
| 2 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 baby | det |
| 4 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kissed | obj |
| 5 | tenderly | tenderly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 kissed | xcomp |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 kissed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kiss | past | She | the baby | tenderly property | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Co-Agent |
Example 2
"Come, little one," he said tenderly.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 2 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 one | punct |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 one | amod |
| 5 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Come | vocative |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | tenderly | tenderly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | xcomp |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | infinitive | little one vocative | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | he | tenderly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
Example 3
He held the bird tenderly in his hands.
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 held | nsubj |
| 2 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bird | det |
| 4 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 held | obj |
| 5 | tenderly | tenderly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 held | xcomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 hands | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hands | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tenderly | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 held | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | He | the bird | tenderly property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=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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