The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 35

By this time some of the guests had regained their courage, and returned as far as the door, thinking that if it was safe for the princess perhaps it was safe for them.

Who acts: courage · What happens: regain, return, think, be · To what, where: some

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (courage), 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	By	by	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 regained	obl
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 regained	nsubj:pass
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 guests	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 guests	det
7	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 some	nmod
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 regained	aux
9	regained	regain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 courage	nmod:poss
11	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 regained	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 returned	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 returned	cc
14	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 regained	conj
15	as	as	ADV	_	16 far	advmod
16	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 returned	advmod
17	as	as	ADP	_	19 door	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 door	det
19	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 returned	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 thinking	punct
21	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 returned	advcl
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 safe	mark
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 safe	mark
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 safe	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 safe	cop
26	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 thinking	ccomp
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 princess	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 princess	det
29	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 safe	obl
30	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	33 safe	advmod
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 safe	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 safe	cop
33	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 safe	conj
34	for	for	ADP	_	35 them	case
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 safe	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 regained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	regain	past · perfect · passive		some	time		tree rules
2	return	past				as the door; far property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	think speech: other	gerund					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a condition, not said to happen	past	courage			for the princess; safe property	tree rules
5	is	past	courage			for guests = guest; perhaps, safe property	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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