The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 14

When Grimace saw that Minon-Minette still managed to look as white as snow, instead of being burnt as brown as a berry, she wondered what could have happened, and began to watch her closely.

Who acts: Grimace, Minon · What happens: see, manage, look, burnt, wonder, happen · To what, where: Grimace · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grimace, Minon), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 saw	advmod
2	Grimace	Grimace	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 managed	mark
5	Minon	Minon	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 managed	nsubj
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 Minon	punct
7	Minette	Minette	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Minon	flat
8	still	still	ADV	_	9 managed	advmod
9	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 look	mark
11	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 managed	xcomp
12	as	as	ADV	_	13 white	advmod
13	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 look	xcomp
14	as	as	ADP	_	15 snow	case
15	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 white	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 burnt	punct
17	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	20 burnt	mark
18	of	of	ADP	_	17 instead	fixed
19	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 burnt	aux:pass
20	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 managed	parataxis
21	as	as	ADP	_	22 brown	case
22	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 burnt	obl
23	as	as	ADP	_	25 berry	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 berry	det
25	berry	berry	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 burnt	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 wondered	punct
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 wondered	nsubj
28	wondered	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 burnt	conj
29	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	32 happened	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 happened	aux
31	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 happened	aux
32	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 wondered	ccomp
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 began	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 began	cc
35	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 watch	mark
37	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 began	xcomp
38	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 watch	obj
39	closely	closely	ADV	_	37 watch	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	Grimace				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	manage	past	Minon		still		vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	look	to-infinitive	Minon not said here			white property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	burnt	gerund · passive				as brown; as a berry	tree rules
5	wonder speech: ask	past	Grimace				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	happen	could · perfect					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	begin	past	Grimace not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
8	watch	to-infinitive	Grimace not said here	Grimace		closely property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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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