tweedle

Who acts: he, man, his, fiddler · What happens: play, make, trill, see, tweedle, whistle · To what, where: tune, pipe, trilling sound, man, bagpipes, little tune

«tweedle» 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: tweedle in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

To play a tune lightly on a pipe or whistle, making a trilling sound.

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 play	mark
2	play	play	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 tune	det
4	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 play	obj
5	lightly	lightly	ADV	_	2 play	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 pipe	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pipe	det
8	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 play	obl
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 whistle	cc
10	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pipe	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 making	punct
12	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 play	advcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 sound	det
14	trilling	trill	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 sound	amod
15	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 making	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 making	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	play	to-infinitive	a tune	a pipe or whistle	lightly property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tune=Theme
2	make	gerund	a trilling sound			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sound=Product
3	trill	gerund				vn animal_sounds-38 «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

By-and-by he saw a man playing the bagpipes.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	2 -	case
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 saw	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 saw	cc
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 and	punct
5	by	by	SCONJ	_	7 saw	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 saw	nsubj
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 man	det
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 saw	obj
10	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 man	acl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bagpipes	det
12	bagpipes	bagpipe	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 playing	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 saw	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	he	a man					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
2	play	gerund	a man not said here	the bagpipes					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bagpipe=Theme

Example 2

He tweedled a little tune on his whistle.

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 tweedled	nsubj
2	tweedled	tweedle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tune	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tune	amod
5	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tweedled	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 whistle	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 whistle	nmod:poss
8	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tune	nmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tweedled	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tweedle	past	He	a little tune		his whistle			tree rules
2	whistle		his = he						nom whistle «event intransitive»: poss=agent

Example 3

The fiddler tweedled merrily all evening.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fiddler	det
2	fiddler	fiddler	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tweedled	nsubj
3	tweedled	tweedle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	merrily	merrily	ADV	_	3 tweedled	advmod
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 evening	det
6	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tweedled	obl:unmarked
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tweedled	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tweedle	past	the fiddler				evening	merrily property	tree rules

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