whimsical

Who acts: Whimsical, whimsical ideas, king, statue · What happens: mean, have, wear, look · To what, where: whimsical hat

«whimsical» 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: whimsical in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Whimsical means odd, playful and full of fancy, not quite ordinary.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whimsical	whimsical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 playful	punct
5	playful	playful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 odd	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 full	cc
7	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 odd	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 fancy	case
9	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 full	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ordinary	punct
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 ordinary	advmod
12	quite	quite	ADV	_	13 ordinary	advmod
13	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 odd	conj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Whimsical					odd property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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

What whimsical ideas these lunatics have!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 have	obj
2	whimsical	whimsical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ideas	amod
3	ideas	idea	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	nsubj
4	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 lunatics	det
5	lunatics	lunatic	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ideas	conj
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	whimsical ideas and this lunatics						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient

Example 2

The king wore a whimsical hat.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wore	nsubj
3	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hat	det
5	whimsical	whimsical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hat	amod
6	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wore	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wore	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	past	the king	a whimsical hat					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hat=Theme

Example 3

The statue looked whimsical in the moonlight.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 statue	det
2	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	whimsical	whimsical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 looked	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 moonlight	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 moonlight	det
7	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looked	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	the statue					in the moonlight; whimsical property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in moonlight=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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