Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 41

What chance could he have, strong and brave though he was, with a man who could, when put in a passion, walk the country into earthquakes and knock thunderbolts into pancakes?

Who acts: chance · What happens: have, be, put, walk, knock · To what, where: man, passion, country, earthquakes, thunderbolts, pancakes

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, A Legend of Knockmany. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chance), 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	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 chance	det
2	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 have	aux
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 strong	punct
7	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 have	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 brave	cc
9	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 strong	conj
10	though	though	SCONJ	_	16 man	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 man	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 man	cop
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 man	punct
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 man	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 man	det
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 strong	nsubj
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 put	nsubj:pass
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 put	aux
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 put	punct
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 put	advmod
21	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 man	acl:relcl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 passion	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 passion	det
24	passion	passion	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 put	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 walk	punct
26	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 have	parataxis
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 country	det
28	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 walk	obj
29	into	into	ADP	_	30 earthquakes	case
30	earthquakes	earthquake	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 walk	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 knock	cc
32	knock	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 walk	conj
33	thunderbolts	thunderbolt	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 knock	obj
34	into	into	ADP	_	35 pancakes	case
35	pancakes	pancake	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 knock	obl
36	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	could	what chance			strong property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	chance			with a man	tree rules
3	put	could · passive		a man	a passion		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in passion=Destination
4	walk	infinitive		the country	earthquakes		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent country=Theme into earthquake=Trajectory
5	knock	present		thunderbolts	pancakes		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent thunderbolt=Theme into pancake=Destination

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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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