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title: But he had better have stayed away, as his face was so pale and his… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, with its dependency tree and the 
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 6

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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.

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

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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.

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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:pg3282:11:6
# text = 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.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	stayed	stay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	away	away	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	occurred	occur	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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 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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