comely

Who acts: Comely, comely maiden, old king, cottage · What happens: mean, look, come, have, be · To what, where: well, comely son

«comely» in the school 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: comely in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Usage: old use — kept apart, not parsed.

Comely means pleasant to look at, pretty or handsome.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Comely	comely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	xcomp
4	to	to	PART	_	5 look	mark
5	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 pleasant	advcl
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 pretty	case
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 pretty	punct
8	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	5 look	obl
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 handsome	cc
10	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pretty	conj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Comely					pleasant property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	look	to-infinitive	Comely not said here						vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at pretty=Theme

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

A comely maiden came to the well.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 maiden	det
2	comely	comely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 maiden	amod
3	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 well	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 well	det
7	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	a comely maiden			the well			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to well=Initial_Location

Example 2

The old king had a comely son.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 king	amod
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 son	det
6	comely	comely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 son	amod
7	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the old king	a comely son					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient

Example 3

The cottage was small and comely.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cottage	det
2	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 small	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 small	cop
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 comely	cc
6	comely	comely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 small	conj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 small	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the cottage					small property	tree rules
2	be		the cottage not said here						tree rules

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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