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title: The boy had need of all his courage to listen silently to the king’s… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The boy had need of all his courage to listen silently to the king’s words. Who acts: boy, king. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 139

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

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

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3282:22:139
# text = The boy had need of all his courage to listen silently to the king’s words.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	need	need	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	courage	courage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
11	silently	silently	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’s	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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.

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**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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