The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 31

But the youth remained so still, that they took courage and laughed gaily to each other.

Who acts: youth, youths · What happens: remain, take, laugh · To what, where: courage, each

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 (youth, youths), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 remained	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 youth	det
3	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 remained	nsubj
4	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 still	advmod
6	still	still	ADV	_	4 remained	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 took	punct
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 took	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 took	nsubj
10	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 remained	conj
11	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 took	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 laughed	cc
13	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 took	conj
14	gaily	gaily	ADV	_	13 laughed	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 each	case
16	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	13 laughed	obl
17	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 each	fixed
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 remained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	remain	past	the youth			still		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	take	past	youths = youth	courage				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Theme
3	laugh	past	youths = youth not said here		each		gaily property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to each=Recipient

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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