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title: As he recalled the misfortune he wept bitterly, and would have given… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As he recalled the misfortune he wept bitterly, and would have given all he possessed to have her once more alive. Who acts: King. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 65

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

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

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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.

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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:pg503:26:65
# text = As he recalled the misfortune he wept bitterly, and would have given all he possessed to have her once more alive.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	recalled	recall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux	_	_
13	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	obj	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	possessed	possess	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	21	advmod	_	_
21	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	_
22	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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 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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