spick

Who acts: Spick, Everything, Geppetto · What happens: mean, be, stand · To what, where: new clothes

«spick» 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: spick in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Usage: old use — kept apart, not parsed.

«Spick and span» means very clean, neat and tidy, as if brand new.

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 Spick	punct
2	Spick	Spick	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 means	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 span	cc
4	span	span	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Spick	conj
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Spick	punct
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 clean	advmod
8	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 means	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 neat	punct
10	neat	neat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 clean	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tidy	cc
12	tidy	tidy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 clean	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 new	punct
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 new	mark
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 new	mark
16	brand	brand	ADV	_	17 new	advmod
17	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 means	advcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Spick and span					clean property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

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

Everything in the house was spick and span.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 spick	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 house	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 house	det
4	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Everything	nmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 spick	cop
6	spick	spick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 span	cc
8	span	span	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spick	conj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 spick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Everything					spick property	tree rules

Example 2

Geppetto stood there, spick and span in his new clothes.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Geppetto	Geppetto	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 stood	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 spick	punct
5	spick	spick	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	parataxis
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 span	cc
7	span	span	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spick	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 clothes	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 clothes	nmod:poss
10	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 clothes	amod
11	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	2 stood	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	Geppetto			Geppetto's new clothes; there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in clothes=Location

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