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tr ' ' '\012' < btl.txt | sort | grep '^love' | uniq-c

     45 loved_VBD
     11 loved_VBN
      1 love-in-action_NN
      1 lovelies_NNS
      3 loveliest_JJT
      4 loveliness_NN
      1 lovelorn_JJ
     44 lovely_JJ
      4 love-making_NN
    165 love_NN
      1 lovering_NN
     16 lover_NN
      1 lover's_NN$
      8 lovers_NNS
      1 lovers'_NNS$
      2 love's_NN$
      2 loves_NNS
     17 loves_VBZ
     56 love_VB          

Obviously, not all of these were relevant, but it seemed easier in this case to cast the net a little wide than to enumerate all of the different forms of love as a verb.

Counting only the following, I get 173 instances of love as a noun and 129 instances of love as a verb.

     56 love_VB          
     45 loved_VBD
     17 loves_VBZ
     11 loved_VBN
    165 love_NN
      4 love-making_NN
      2 love's_NN$
      2 loves_NNS

Running the same search without the `^' in the regular expression (i.e., only grep 'love') shows that there are no instances of love as the second member of a compound.

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