The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 119

If we could save him we would; but that is beyond our power.”

Who acts: we, that · What happens: save, be · To what, where: king

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, that), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 save	mark
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 save	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 save	aux
4	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 power	advcl
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 save	obj
6	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 would	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 save	parataxis
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 save	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 power	cc
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 power	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 power	cop
12	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	14 power	case
13	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 power	nmod:poss
14	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 power	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 power	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save a condition, not said to happen	could	we	king					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	is	present	that					beyond our power	tree rules

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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