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title: comely — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «comely» in the school dictionary: Comely means pleasant to look at, pretty or handsome. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# comely

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

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«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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/comely.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Usage: old use — kept apart, not parsed.

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Comely means pleasant to look at, pretty or handsome.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:comely:m1:1
# text = Comely means pleasant to look at, pretty or handsome.
1	Comely	comely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	5	obl	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 |

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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 {#x1}

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A comely maiden came to the well.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:comely:x1:1
# text = A comely maiden came to the well.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	comely	comely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#x2}

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The old king had a comely son.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:comely:x2:1
# text = The old king had a comely son.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	comely	comely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#x3}

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The cottage was small and comely.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:comely:x3:1
# text = The cottage was small and comely.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	comely	comely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 |

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**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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