undertone
Who acts: quiet low voice, hidden feeling, He, She, angry undertone, undertone · What happens: use, not hear, speak, mean, say, be · To what, where: quiet low voice, undertone, words, it, soft undertone · Speech: someone speaks here
«undertone» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings 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: undertone in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
A quiet, low voice used so others cannot hear: speak in an undertone.
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 voice | det |
| 2 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 voice | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 quiet | punct |
| 4 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 voice | amod |
| 5 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hear | nsubj |
| 6 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 voice | acl |
| 7 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 8 others | case |
| 8 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 used | obl |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 hear | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 hear | advmod |
| 11 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 speak | punct |
| 13 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 hear | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 undertone | case |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 undertone | det |
| 16 | undertone | undertone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 speak | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 hear | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | participle | a quiet low voice not said here | so others | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not hear | can | a quiet low voice | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | infinitive | a quiet low voice not said here | a undertone | vn talk-37.5 «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.
Meaning 2
A hidden feeling or meaning under the words.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 feeling | det |
| 2 | hidden | hidden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 feeling | amod |
| 3 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 meaning | cc |
| 5 | meaning | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 feeling | acl |
| 6 | under | under | ADP | _ | 8 words | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 words | det |
| 8 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 meaning | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 feeling | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | gerund | a hidden feeling not said here | the words | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
Example 1
He spoke in an undertone.
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 spoke | nsubj |
| 2 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 undertone | case |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 undertone | det |
| 5 | undertone | undertone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spoke | obl |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spoke | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | He | a undertone | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Example 2
She said it in a soft undertone.
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 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 said | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 undertone | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 undertone | det |
| 6 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 undertone | amod |
| 7 | undertone | undertone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 said | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | She | it | a soft undertone | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent it=Theme in undertone=Manner |
Example 3
There was an angry undertone in his words.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 undertone | det |
| 4 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 undertone | amod |
| 5 | undertone | undertone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 words | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 words | nmod:poss |
| 8 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 undertone | nmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a angry undertone in undertone's words | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | word | undertone | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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