The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 6

But he had better have stayed away, as his face was so pale and his manner so strange, that the poor girl saw that something terrible had occurred.

Who acts: face, manner, poor girl · What happens: stay away, be, see, occur · To what, where: something · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (face, manner, poor girl), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 had	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stayed	aux
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 had	xcomp
5	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 stayed	aux
6	stayed	stay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 stayed	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 pale	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 pale	mark
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 face	nmod:poss
11	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pale	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 pale	cop
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 pale	advmod
14	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stayed	parataxis
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 strange	cc
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 manner	nmod:poss
17	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 strange	nsubj
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 strange	advmod
19	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 pale	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 saw	punct
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 saw	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 girl	det
23	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 girl	amod
24	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 saw	nsubj
25	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stayed	conj
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 occurred	mark
27	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	30 occurred	nsubj:pass
28	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 something	amod
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 occurred	aux
30	occurred	occur	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 saw	ccomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 stayed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stay away	past · perfect			away property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	his face		pale property	tree rules
3	be		his manner			tree rules
4	see	past	the poor girl			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	occur	past · perfect · passive		something		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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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