---
title: Could I but win the maiden For whom my heart doth pine, I’d prize he… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: Could I but win the maiden For whom my heart doth pine, I’d prize her as a jewel From depths of ocean brine. Who acts: I, heart. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Love Song., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/27/1/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Folk tales from Tibet](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/) / [Love Song.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/27/) / 1

# Folk tales from Tibet, Love Song., sentence 1

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Could I but win the maiden For whom my heart doth pine, I’d prize her as a jewel From depths of ocean brine.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** I, heart · **What happens:** win, do, have, prize · **To what, where:** maiden, pine, heart

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Love Song.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, heart), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75000:27:1
# text = Could I but win the maiden For whom my heart doth pine, I’d prize her as a jewel From depths of ocean brine.
1	Could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	win	win	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	For	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nmod	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	doth	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	pine	pine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’d	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	prize	prize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
17	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	jewel	jewel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	From	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	depths	depth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	brine	brine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | could | I | the maiden |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent maiden=Theme for whom=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **do** | present | my heart | pine |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pine=Eventuality |
| 3 | **have** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **prize** | infinitive | I *not said here* | heart |  |  |  | as a jewel from depths of ocean brine | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**Text:** «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Project Gutenberg book 75000 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Some Verses From Tibetan Lov…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/26/10/)
- next →: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/27/2/)
- ↑ back to [Love Song.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/27/)