The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 66

Then he slipped quietly away, and thought to himself, ‘How lucky that I managed to control my rage!

Who acts: brother, I, my · What happens: slip, think, manage, control, rage · To what, where: brother, rage

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, I, my), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 slipped	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 slipped	nsubj
3	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	5 away	advmod
5	away	away	ADV	_	3 slipped	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 thought	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 thought	cc
8	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 slipped	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 himself	case
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 thought	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 lucky	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 lucky	punct
13	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 lucky	advmod
14	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 slipped	conj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 managed	mark
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 managed	nsubj
17	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 lucky	advcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 control	mark
19	control	control	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 managed	xcomp
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 rage	nmod:poss
21	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 control	obj
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 slipped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	slip	past	brother			then	away property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	think speech: other	participle	brother not said here		brother			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	manage	past	I					vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	control	to-infinitive	I not said here	my rage				vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rage=Theme
5	rage		my					nom rage «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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