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title: fondle — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «fondle» in the school dictionary: To fondle someone is to touch or stroke them gently and lovingly. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# fondle

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**Who acts:** she, old woman · **What happens:** fondle, be, stroke, kiss, begin · **To what, where:** someone, them, child, Prince

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«fondle» in the school 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: [fondle in the school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/fondle.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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To fondle someone is to touch or stroke them gently and lovingly.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:fondle:m1:1
# text = To fondle someone is to touch or stroke them gently and lovingly.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	fondle	fondle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
3	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	obj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	touch	touch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	stroke	stroke	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	lovingly	lovingly	ADV	RB	_	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fondle** | to-infinitive |  | someone |  |  |  |  | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | touch *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **stroke** | infinitive |  | them *= they* |  |  |  | gently *property* | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Experiencer |

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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 {#x1}

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Then she kissed and fondled her child.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:fondle:x1:1
# text = Then she kissed and fondled her child.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	fondled	fondle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kiss** | past | she |  |  |  | then |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fondle** | past | she *not said here* | her child |  |  |  |  | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Experiencer |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The old woman began to fondle the Prince with the utmost delight.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:fondle:x2:1
# text = The old woman began to fondle the Prince with the utmost delight.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	fondle	fondle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	utmost	utmost	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | the old woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **fondle** | to-infinitive | the old woman *not said here* | the Prince |  |  |  | with the utmost delight | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent prince=Experiencer with delight=Instrument |

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**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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