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title: pease — Early Modern English dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «pease» in the Early Modern English dictionary: Peas, the small round green vegetables; the old plural of pea. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# pease

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**Who acts:** witch · **What happens:** make, pease, set, send, drive · **To what, where:** soup, youngest child, sparrows

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«pease» in the Early Modern English dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 2 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: [pease in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/emode/w/pease.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Peas, the small round green vegetables; the old plural of pea.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:emode:pease:m1:1
# text = Peas, the small round green vegetables; the old plural of pea.
1	Peas	pea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	plural	plural	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	pea	pea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## Example 1 {#x1}

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The witch made pease-soup of it, and set it before the daughter.

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From The Red Fairy Book.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:emode:pease:x1:1
# text = The witch made pease-soup of it, and set it before the daughter.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	pease	pease	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	before	before	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the witch |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pease** | infinitive | the witch *not said here* | soup of soup |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **set** | infinitive | the witch *not said here* | soup |  |  | before the daughter |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme before daughter=Destination |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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One day the youngest child was sent to drive the sparrows away from her grandfather's pease.

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From Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:emode:pease:x2:1
# text = One day the youngest child was sent to drive the sparrows away from her grandfather's pease.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	away	away	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	pease	pease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past · passive |  | the youngest child |  |  | day |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **drive** | to-infinitive |  | the sparrows |  |  |  | away *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme sparrow=Trajectory |

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**Text:** the Early Modern English dictionary of Mova's schools (`world/data/dictionary-schools/`), written for Mova; its examples quote public-domain texts. **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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