woebegone
Who acts: you, He, woebegone, woebegone dog · What happens: look, have, sit · To what, where: woebegone
«woebegone» 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: woebegone in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
Looking very sad, unhappy or miserable.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | very | very | ADV | _ | 3 sad | advmod |
| 3 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Looking | xcomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 unhappy | punct |
| 5 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sad | conj |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 miserable | cc |
| 7 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sad | conj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Looking | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | gerund | sad property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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
Why do you look so woebegone?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 look | advmod |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 look | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 look | nsubj |
| 4 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 woebegone | advmod |
| 6 | woebegone | woebegone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 look | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present · do-support | you | woebegone | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme woebegone=Attribute |
Example 2
He had a woebegone look about him.
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 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 woebegone | det |
| 4 | woebegone | woebegone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 look | nsubj |
| 5 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 had | xcomp |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 look | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | He | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | look | infinitive | a woebegone | about him = he | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Theme |
Example 3
The woebegone dog sat by the gate.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dog | det |
| 2 | woebegone | woebegone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dog | compound |
| 3 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | nsubj |
| 4 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 gate | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gate | det |
| 7 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sat | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | the woebegone dog | by the gate | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by gate=Location |
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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