The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 46

But, alas! his courage would have availed him nothing had his enemy once touched him, for he was large and powerful, and very fierce.

Who acts: nothing, enemy, Gon · What happens: avail, have, touch, be · To what, where: courage, enemy, Gon

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nothing, enemy, Gon), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	12 had	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 availed	punct
3	alas	alas	INTJ	_	9 availed	discourse
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 alas	punct
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 courage	nmod:poss
6	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 availed	nsubj:pass
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 availed	aux
8	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 availed	aux
9	availed	avail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 nothing	amod
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 availed	obj
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 enemy	nmod:poss
14	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obj
15	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	16 touched	advmod
16	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 enemy	acl:relcl
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 touched	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 large	punct
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	22 large	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 large	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 large	cop
22	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 had	advcl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 powerful	cc
24	powerful	powerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 large	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 fierce	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 fierce	cc
27	very	very	ADV	_	28 fierce	advmod
28	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 large	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	avail	would · perfect · passive		Gon's courage		tree rules
2	have	past	nothing	Gon's enemy		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enemy=Patient
3	touch	past	Gon's enemy not said here	Gon	once property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme
4	is	past	Gon		large property	tree rules
5	be		Gon not said here			tree rules
6	be		Gon not said here			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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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