The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 65

As he recalled the misfortune he wept bitterly, and would have given all he possessed to have her once more alive.

Who acts: King · What happens: recall, weep, give, possess, have · To what, where: misfortune, all, bride

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 recalled	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 recalled	nsubj
3	recalled	recall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 misfortune	det
5	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 recalled	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wept	nsubj
7	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 misfortune	acl:relcl
8	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	7 wept	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 given	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 given	cc
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 given	aux
12	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 given	aux
13	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 recalled	conj
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 given	obj
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 possessed	nsubj
16	possessed	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 all	acl:relcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 have	mark
18	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 possessed	xcomp
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 have	obj
20	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	21 more	advmod
21	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 alive	advmod
22	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 have	xcomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 recalled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	recall	past	King	the misfortune		vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent misfortune=Theme
2	weep	past	King	the misfortune not said here	bitterly property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent misfortune=Theme
3	give	would · perfect	King not said here	all		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme
4	possess	past	King			tree rules
5	have	to-infinitive	King not said here	bride	alive property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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