Learned by Reading
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
A very slim volume indeed.
(Parse)
(S1 (FRAG (NP (DT A)
(ADJP (RB very) (JJ slim)) (NN volume)) (ADVP (RB indeed)) (. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
A Season of Night (University of Mississippi Press) is a slim volume that follows the author’s post – Katrina experiences.
(Parse)
(S1 (S (NP (NP (DT A) (NN Season))
(PP (IN of)
(NP (NP (NNP Night)) (PRN (-LRB- -LRB-)
(NP (NNP University) (IN of) (NNP Mississippi) (NNP Press)) (-RRB- -RRB-)))))
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(NP (NP (DT a) (JJ slim) (NN volume))
(SBAR (WHNP (WDT that))
(S (VP (VBZ follows)
(NP (NP (DT the) (NN author) (POS 's)) (NN post)) (: -)
(NP (NNP Katrina) (NNS experiences))))
(. .)))
In Wikipedia:
He published a slim volume of poetry in 1944 and had his first exhibition at the Gallerie Arc en Ciel.
(Parse)
(S1 (S (NP (PRP He))
(VP (VP (VBD published)
(NP (NP (DT a) (JJ slim) (NN volume))
(PP (IN of)
(NP (NN poetry))))
(PP (IN in)
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(CC and)
(VP (AUX had)
(NP (NP (PRP$ his) (JJ first) (NN exhibition))
(PP (IN at)
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(PP (IN en)
(NP (NNP Ciel)))))
(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
This volume is slim and lightweight, precisely sized for the outside pocket of a student’s backpack.
(Parse)
(S1 (S (NP (DT This) (NN volume))
(VP (AUX is)
(ADJP (JJ slim) (CC and) (JJ lightweight)) (, ,) (ADVP (RB precisely))
(VP (VBD sized)
(PP (IN for)
(NP (NP (DT the) (JJ outside) (NN pocket))
(PP (IN of)
(NP (NP (DT a) (NN student) (POS 's)) (NN backpack))))
(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
The volume is slim, with about a fifth of the pages reserved for candid color photographs.
(Parse)
(S1 (S (NP (DT The) (NN volume))
(VP (VBZ is)
(ADJP (JJ slim)) (, ,)
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(PP (IN of)
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(PP (IN for)
(NP (JJ candid) (NN color) (NNS photographs)))
(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
It’s usually college freshmen who suddenly take up the French existentialist’s slim volume, and then usually to impress some literature major with wavy hair.
(Parse)
(S1 (S (NP (PRP It))
(VP (AUX 's) (ADVP (RB usually))
(NP (NP (NN college) (NNS freshmen))
(SBAR (WHNP (WP who))
(S (ADVP (RB suddenly))
(VP (VP (VBP take) (PRT (RP up))
(NP (NP (DT the) (NNP French) (NN existentialist) (POS 's)) (JJ slim) (NN volume)))
(, ,) (CC and) (ADVP (RB then)) (ADVP (RB usually))
(VP (TO to)
(VP (VB impress)
(NP (DT some) (NN literature) (NN major))
(PP (IN with)
(NP (JJ wavy) (NN hair))))
(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
In 2001, a small Virginia publisher issued a slim volume of his poems, called “Heartsongs.”
(Parse)
(S1 (S (PP (IN In)
(NP (CD 2001)))
(, ,)
(NP (DT a) (JJ small) (NNP Virginia) (NN publisher))
(VP (VBD issued)
(NP (NP (DT a) (JJ slim) (NN volume))
(PP (IN of)
(NP (PRP$ his) (NNS poems)))
(, ,)
(VP (VBN called)
(S (VP (POS ') ('' ')
(NP (NNP Heartsongs))))
(. .) ('' ') ('' ')))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
The volume is slim, with about a fifth of the pages reserved for candid color photographs.
(Parse)
(S1 (S (NP (DT The) (NN volume))
(VP (VBZ is)
(ADJP (JJ slim)) (, ,)
(PP (IN with)
(NP (NP (RB about) (DT a) (JJ fifth))
(PP (IN of)
(NP (NP (DT the) (NNS pages))
(VP (VBN reserved)
(PP (IN for)
(NP (JJ candid) (NN color) (NNS photographs)))
(. .)))
In Wikipedia:
Maulana Muhammad Hussain Azad compiled a slim volume of his poetry with the help of his pupils like Hafiz, Veeran, Anwar and Zaheer that contains twelve hundred couplets of Ghazals and fifteen Eulogies.
(Parse)
(S1 (S (NP (NNP Maulana) (NNP Muhammad) (NNP Hussain) (NNP Azad))
(VP (VBN compiled)
(NP (NP (DT a) (JJ slim) (NN volume))
(PP (IN of)
(NP (PRP$ his) (NN poetry))))
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(SBAR (WHNP (WDT that))
(S (VP (VBZ contains)
(NP (NP (QP (CD twelve) (CD hundred)) (NNS couplets))
(PP (IN of)
(NP (NP (NNPS Ghazals)) (CC and)
(NP (JJ fifteen) (NNPS Eulogies))))
(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
I placed the slim volume back on the windowsill, smiling to myself.
(Parse)
(S1 (S (NP (PRP I))
(VP (VBD placed)
(NP (DT the) (JJ slim) (NN volume)) (PRT (RP back))
(PP (IN on)
(NP (DT the) (NN windowsill)))
(, ,)
(S (VP (VBG smiling)
(PP (TO to)
(NP (PRP myself)))
(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
It takes a skilled hand to handle this many issues in one slim volume, and unfortunately, I don’t think Chavisa Woods quite has that skill.
(Parse)
(S1 (S (S (NP (PRP It))
(VP (VBZ takes)
(NP (DT a) (JJ skilled) (NN hand))
(S (VP (TO to)
(VP (VB handle)
(NP (DT this) (JJ many) (NNS issues))
(PP (IN in)
(NP (CD one) (JJ slim) (NN volume)))))
(, ,) (CC and)
(S (ADVP (RB unfortunately)) (, ,)
(NP (PRP I))
(VP (AUX do) (RB n't)
(VP (VB think)
(SBAR (S (NP (NNP Chavisa) (NNP Woods)) (ADVP (RB quite))
(VP (VBZ has)
(NP (DT that) (NN skill)))))
(. .)))
In Wikipedia:
He is best known for his opera librettos, but also published a slim volume of verses for music, entitled “Pagine d ’Album” (Milano, Ricordi, 1885); many more of his poems intended to be set to music were published in the “Gazzetta Musicale di Milano”.
(Parse)
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(VP (VP (ADVP (RB best)) (VBN known)
(PP (IN for)
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(, ,) (CONJP (CC but) (RB also))
(VP (VBN published)
(NP (NP (DT a) (JJ slim) (NN volume))
(PP (IN of)
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(, ,)
(VP (VBN entitled) ('' '')
(NP (NP (NNP Pagine) (NNP d) (NN 'Album)) ('' '') (PRN (-LRB- -LRB-)
(NP (NNP Milano)) (, ,)
(NP (NNP Ricordi)) (, ,)
(NP (CD 1885)) (-RRB- -RRB-))))
(: ;)
(S (NP (NP (JJ many) (JJR more))
(PP (IN of)
(NP (NP (PRP$ his) (NNS poems))
(VP (VBN intended)
(S (VP (TO to)
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(VP (VBN set)
(PP (TO to)
(NP (NN music)))))
(VP (AUX were)
(VP (VBN published)
(PP (IN in)
(NP (DT the) ('' '')
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
I sat up and read May Sarton’s As We Are Now on Friday night which is a slim, intense little volume about the frustrations of aging.
(Parse)
(S1 (S (NP (PRP I))
(VP (VP (VBD sat) (PRT (RP up)))
(CC and)
(VP (VBD read)
(NP (NNP May) (NNP Sarton) (POS 's))
(SBAR (IN As)
(S (NP (PRP We))
(VP (VBP Are) (ADVP (RB Now))
(PP (IN on)
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(SBAR (WHNP (WDT which))
(S (VP (AUX is)
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(PP (IN about)
(NP (NP (DT the) (NNS frustrations))
(PP (IN of)
(NP (NN aging)))))
(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Neither will be disappointed by Judenhass, a slim volume that Sim has published himself under his long – running Aardvark – Vanaheim imprint.
(Parse)
(S1 (S (NP (DT Neither))
(VP (MD will)
(VP (AUX be)
(VP (VBN disappointed)
(PP (IN by)
(NP (NP (NNP Judenhass)) (, ,)
(NP (NP (DT a) (JJ slim) (NN volume))
(SBAR (WHNP (WDT that))
(S (NP (NNP Sim))
(VP (AUX has)
(VP (VBN published)
(NP (PRP himself))
(PP (IN under)
(NP (PRP$ his) (JJ long) (PRN (: -)
(VP (VBG running)
(NP (NNP Aardvark)))
(: -)) (NNP Vanaheim) (NN imprint))))
(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Beginning, intermediate, and advanced student alike can certainly benefit from the writings contained in this slim volume.
(Parse)
(S1 (S (NP (NN Beginning) (, ,)
(ADJP (JJ intermediate) (, ,) (CC and) (JJ advanced)) (NN student)) (ADVP (RB alike))
(VP (MD can) (ADVP (RB certainly))
(VP (VB benefit)
(PP (IN from)
(NP (NP (DT the) (NNS writings))
(VP (VBN contained)
(PP (IN in)
(NP (DT this) (JJ slim) (NN volume)))))
(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Yea, his slim volume with its understated wrapper Bathes in the blare of the brightly jacketed Hitler’s War Machine, His unmistakably individual new voice Shares the same scrapyart with a forlorn skyscraper Of The Kung – Fu Cookbook, His honesty, proclaimed by himself and believed by others, His renowned abhorrence of all posturing and pretense, Is there with Pertwee’s Promenades and Pierrots – One Hundred Years of Seaside Entertainment, And (oh, this above all) his sensibility, His sensibility and its hair-like filaments, His delicate, quivering sensibility is now as one With Barbara Windsor’s Book of Boobs, A volume graced by the descriptive rubric “My boobs will give everyone hours of fun’ ’.
(Parse)
(S1 (S (S (INTJ (UH Yea)) (, ,)
(NP (NP (PRP$ his) (JJ slim) (NN volume))
(PP (IN with)
(NP (PRP$ its) (VBN understated) (NN wrapper))))
(VP (VBZ Bathes) (PRT (RP in))
(NP (NP (DT the) (NN blare)
(SBAR (IN of)
(S (NP (NP (DT the)
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(PP (IN Of)
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(: -)
(NP (NNP Fu) (NN Cookbook)) (, ,)
(NP (PRP$ His) (NN honesty)) (, ,))
(VP (VP (VBD proclaimed)
(PP (IN by)
(NP (PRP himself))))
(CC and)
(VP (VBD believed)
(PP (IN by)
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(, ,)
(NP (NP (PRP$ His) (JJ renowned) (NN abhorrence))
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(, ,)
(VP (AUX Is) (ADVP (RB there))
(PP (IN with)
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(: -)
(NP (NP (NNP One) (NNP Hundred) (NNS Years))
(PP (IN of)
(NP (NNP Seaside) (NNP Entertainment))))
(, ,) (CC And) (PRN (-LRB- -LRB-) (INTJ (UH oh)) (, ,))
(NP (DT this)))
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(: -)
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(NP (NNS filaments)))
(, ,)
(NP (PRP$ His) (JJ delicate) (, ,) (JJ quivering) (NN sensibility))
(VP (AUX is) (ADVP (RB now))
(PP (IN as)
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(PP (IN With)
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(PP (IN of)
(NP (NN fun)))
('' ') ('' ')))
(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
In 1947, in a slim volume entitled?
(Parse)
(S1 (FRAG (PP (IN In)
(NP (CD 1947)))
(, ,)
(PP (IN in)
(NP (NP (DT a) (JJ slim) (NN volume))
(VP (VBN entitled))))
(. ?)))
In Wikipedia:
Waterhouse left behind a slim volume of poems, published posthumously in December 1916, entitled Rail – Head and other poems.
(Parse)
(S1 (S (NP (NNP Waterhouse))
(VP (VBD left) (PRT (RP behind))
(NP (NP (DT a) (JJ slim) (NN volume))
(PP (IN of)
(NP (NP (NNS poems)) (, ,)
(VP (VP (VBN published) (ADVP (RB posthumously))
(PP (IN in)
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(, ,)
(VP (VBN entitled)
(NP (NP (NN Rail)) (: -)
(NP (NP (NN Head)) (CC and)
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
In less capable hands, the subject matter could be a real bore, but he’s able to keep things moving at a breezy pace and the slim volume was consumed in just a couple of sittings.
(Parse)
(S1 (S (PP (IN In)
(NP (ADJP (RBR less) (JJ capable)) (NNS hands)))
(, ,)
(S (NP (DT the) (JJ subject) (NN matter))
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(NP (DT a) (JJ real) (VBD bore)))))
(, ,) (CC but)
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(PP (IN of)
(NP (NNS sittings)))))
(. .)))
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