The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 139

The boy had need of all his courage to listen silently to the king’s words.

Who acts: boy, king · What happens: have, listen, need, word · To what, where: need, courage

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, king), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 courage	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 courage	det:predet
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 courage	nmod:poss
8	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 need	nmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 listen	mark
10	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	advcl
11	silently	silently	ADV	_	10 listen	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	16 words	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 king	det
14	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 words	nmod:poss
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 king	case
16	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 listen	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	the boy	need of boy's courage		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=Patient
2	listen	to-infinitive	the boy not said here		to the king's words; silently property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to word=Theme
3	need			boy's courage		nom need «state transitive»: of=patient
4	word		the king			nom word «communication transitive»: 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 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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