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title: He had the same broad forehead, the same thick neck, and same red ha… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He had the same broad forehead, the same thick neck, and same red hair, but in other respects he was now like a human being. Who acts: man. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 53

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He had the same broad forehead, the same thick neck, and same red hair, but in other respects he was now like a human being.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** have, respect, be · **To what, where:** same broad forehead, other

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg5615:14:53
# text = He had the same broad forehead, the same thick neck, and same red hair, but in other respects he was now like a human being.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	forehead	forehead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	obl	_	_
21	respects	respect	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
24	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
25	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	ccomp	_	_
28	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | man | the same broad forehead and the same thick neck |  |  |  | same red hair *obl* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forehead=Patient |
| 2 | **respect** | present | man *not said here* |  |  | other |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | past | man |  |  |  | now | human *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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