Not a native speaker, but "a little lovely" kinda sounds like an opposite to "much lovely". That is, my parsing of "a little lovely park" is ambiguous between

Not a native speaker, but "a little lovely" kinda sounds like an opposite to "much lovely". That is, my parsing of "a little lovely park" is ambiguous between "a little (lovely park)" and "a (little lovely) park". With "a lovely little park" there is no ambiguity.