The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 107

Poor Désiré, who had braved so many dangers to win the lady of his dreams, would have given at this moment all the princesses in the world, were they pink or golden, for a single drop of water.

Who acts: Poor Désiré, adventurer · What happens: brave, win, give, be, dream · To what, where: many dangers, lady, princesses, world

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Poor Désiré, adventurer), 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	Poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Désiré	amod
2	Désiré	Désiré	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 pink	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 braved	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 braved	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 braved	aux
6	braved	brave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 Désiré	acl:relcl
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 many	advmod
8	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dangers	amod
9	dangers	danger	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 braved	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 win	mark
11	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 braved	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 lady	det
13	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 win	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 dreams	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 dreams	nmod:poss
16	dreams	dream	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 lady	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 given	punct
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 given	aux
19	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 given	aux
20	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 Désiré	advcl
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 moment	case
22	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 moment	det
23	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 given	obl
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 princesses	det:predet
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 princesses	det
26	princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 given	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 world	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 world	det
29	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 princesses	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Désiré	punct
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 pink	cop
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 pink	nsubj
33	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
34	or	or	CCONJ	_	35 golden	cc
35	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 pink	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 drop	punct
37	for	for	ADP	_	40 drop	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 drop	det
39	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 drop	amod
40	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 pink	conj
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 water	case
42	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 drop	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 pink	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	brave	past · perfect	Poor Désiré	many dangers				vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent danger=Theme
2	win	to-infinitive	Poor Désiré not said here	the lady of adventurer's dreams				vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Eventuality
3	give	would · perfect	Poor Désiré not said here	all princesses	the world	moment		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme
4	is	past	Poor Désiré				pink property	tree rules
5	be		Poor Désiré not said here					tree rules
6	dream		adventurer					nom dream «cognition 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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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