The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 61

That night, however, it had not the same appearance as on the previous one; it was less ugly.

Who acts: clock · What happens: have, be · To what, where: same appearance

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clock), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 night	det
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 night	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	7 had	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 appearance	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 appearance	det
10	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 appearance	amod
11	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obj
12	as	as	ADP	_	16 one	case
13	on	on	ADP	_	16 one	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 one	det
15	previous	previous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 one	amod
16	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 appearance	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 ugly	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 ugly	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 ugly	cop
20	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	21 ugly	advmod
21	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 had	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	clock	the same appearance			night	as the previous one; however property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appearance=Patient
2	is	past	clock					less, ugly property	tree rules

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.

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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