nice

Who acts: You, nice clover blossom · What happens: show, er, be · To what, where: fussiness, nice feller

«nice» in the Early Modern English 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: nice in the Early Modern English dictionary.

Meaning 1

Exact, fine, or careful; sometimes showing fussiness or foolishness.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Exact	exact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 fine	punct
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Exact	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 careful	punct
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 careful	cc
6	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Exact	conj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 showing	punct
8	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 showing	advmod
9	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 careful	advcl
10	fussiness	fussiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 showing	obj
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 foolishness	cc
12	foolishness	foolishness	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fussiness	conj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Exact	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	gerund		fussiness or foolishness				sometimes property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fussiness=Recipient

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

"'You er nice feller, you is!

From Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 er	punct
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 er	punct
3	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 er	nsubj
4	er	er	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 feller	amod
6	feller	feller	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 er	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 er	punct
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 is	nsubj
9	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 er	advcl
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 er	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	er in a quote	present	You	nice feller					tree rules
2	does in a quote	present	you						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Example 2

Good little dog--nice little doggie, then!

From The Jungle Book.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dog	amod
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dog	amod
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	--	--	PUNCT	_	7 doggie	punct
5	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 doggie	amod
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 doggie	amod
7	doggie	doggie	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dog	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 then	punct
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 dog	advmod
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 dog	punct

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

Example 3

"Here is a nice clover blossom."

From Tanglewood Tales.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
2	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Here	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 blossom	det
5	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 blossom	amod
6	clover	clover	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 blossom	compound
7	blossom	blossom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Here	nsubj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	a nice clover blossom					here property	tree rules

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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