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title: Poor Désiré, who had braved so many dangers to win the lady of his d… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 107

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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.

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

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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.

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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:pg540:40:107
# text = 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.
1	Poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Désiré	Désiré	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	braved	brave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	dangers	danger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	win	win	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	dreams	dream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux	_	_
20	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	26	det:predet	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	princesses	princess	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
31	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	pink	pink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
34	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	drop	drop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	33	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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 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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