The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 17

For some minutes he was too stunned by the treachery of his friend to think about anything at all, but after a while he shook himself awake, and determined that he would manage to keep alive somehow, if it were only to revenge himself.

Who acts: treachery, comrade · What happens: stun, think, shake, determine, manage, keep · To what, where: comrade, revenge

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (treachery, comrade), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 minutes	case
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 minutes	det
3	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stunned	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 stunned	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stunned	aux:pass
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 stunned	advmod
7	stunned	stun	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 treachery	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 treachery	det
10	treachery	treachery	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stunned	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 friend	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 friend	nmod:poss
13	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 treachery	nmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 think	mark
15	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 stunned	advcl
16	about	about	ADP	_	17 anything	case
17	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	15 think	obl
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 all	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 anything	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 shook	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 shook	cc
22	after	after	ADP	_	24 while	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 while	det
24	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 shook	obl
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 shook	nsubj
26	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stunned	conj
27	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 shook	obj
28	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 shook	xcomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 determined	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 determined	cc
31	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 shook	conj
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 manage	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 manage	nsubj
34	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 manage	aux
35	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 determined	ccomp
36	to	to	PART	_	37 keep	mark
37	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 manage	xcomp
38	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 keep	xcomp
39	somehow	somehow	ADV	_	37 keep	advmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 revenge	punct
41	if	if	SCONJ	_	46 revenge	mark
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 revenge	nsubj
43	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 revenge	cop
44	only	only	ADV	_	46 revenge	advmod
45	to	to	PART	_	46 revenge	mark
46	revenge	revenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 determined	obl
47	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	46 revenge	nmod:unmarked
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 stunned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	stun	past · passive	the treachery of comrade's friend	comrade	minute		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer
2	think speech: other	to-infinitive	the treachery of comrade's friend not said here			about anything	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about anything=Topic
3	shake	past	comrade	comrade	while	awake property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
4	determine	past	comrade not said here				vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	manage	would	comrade				vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	keep	to-infinitive	comrade not said here			alive, somehow property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	is a a condition, not said to happen	past	treachery	revenge		comrade nmod:unmarked	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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