The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 4

But if his enemy happens to know magic, and can throw down the forest, the man has only to strike the stone with the stick, and hailstones as large as pigeons’ eggs will rain down from the sky and will kill every one for twenty miles round.”

Who acts: enemy, man · What happens: happen, know, throw down, have, strike, kill · To what, where: magic, forest, stone, one

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (enemy, man), 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 throw	cc
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 happens	mark
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 enemy	nmod:poss
4	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 happens	nsubj
5	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 throw	advcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 know	mark
7	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 happens	xcomp
8	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 know	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 throw	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 throw	cc
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 throw	aux
12	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	down	down	ADP	_	12 throw	compound:prt
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 forest	det
15	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 throw	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 has	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 man	det
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 has	nsubj
19	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 throw	parataxis
20	only	only	ADV	_	22 strike	advmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 strike	mark
22	strike	strike	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 has	xcomp
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 stone	det
24	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 strike	obj
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 stick	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 stick	det
27	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 strike	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 large	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 large	cc
30	hailstones	hailstone	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 large	nsubj
31	as	as	ADV	_	32 large	advmod
32	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 has	conj
33	as	as	ADP	_	36 eggs	case
34	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 eggs	nmod:poss
35	’	's	PART	_	34 pigeons	case
36	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 large	obl
37	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 large	aux
38	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 will	nsubj
39	down	down	ADV	_	38 rain	advmod
40	from	from	ADP	_	42 sky	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 sky	det
42	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 down	obl
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 kill	cc
44	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 kill	aux
45	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 has	conj
46	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	47 one	det
47	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 kill	obj
48	for	for	ADP	_	50 miles	case
49	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	50 miles	nummod
50	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 kill	obl
51	round	round	ADV	_	45 kill	advmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 throw	punct
53	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 throw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen a condition, not said to happen	present	Bather's enemy			tree rules
2	know	to-infinitive	Bather's enemy not said here	magic		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer magic=Stimulus
3	throw down	can		the forest		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forest=Theme
4	have	present	the man			tree rules
5	strike	to-infinitive	the man not said here	the stone	with the stick	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent stone=Patient with stick=Instrument
6	kill	future	the man not said here	every one	for twenty miles; round property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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