The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 11

‘What I want of you only needs a little courage,’ answered the old man.

Who acts: I, little courage · What happens: want, need, answer · To what, where: little courage, old man

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, little 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 want	obj
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 want	nsubj
4	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 needs	advcl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 you	case
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 want	obl
7	only	only	ADV	_	8 needs	advmod
8	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 courage	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 courage	amod
11	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 needs	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 answered	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 answered	punct
14	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 courage	acl:relcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 man	det
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 man	amod
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 answered	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 needs	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	want	present	I			of you	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
2	need	present		a little courage			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot courage=Theme
3	answer speech: assert	past	a little courage not said here		the old man		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent man=Eventuality

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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