The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 14

When Cola-Mattheo brought this answer back to the snake, the little creature didn’t seem the least put out, but said, ‘To-morrow morning, before sunrise, you must go to the wood and gather a bunch of green herbs, and then rub the threshold of the palace with them, and you’ll see what will happen.’

Who acts: Cola, little creature, you · What happens: bring back, not seem, put out, say, go, gather · To what, where: answer, snake, wood, bunch, threshold · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cola, little creature, you), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 brought	advmod
2	Cola	Cola	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 brought	nsubj
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 Mattheo	punct
4	Mattheo	Mattheo	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Cola	flat
5	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 go	advcl
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 answer	det
7	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 brought	obj
8	back	back	ADV	_	5 brought	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 snake	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 snake	det
11	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 brought	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 seem	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 creature	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 creature	amod
15	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 seem	nsubj
16	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 seem	aux
17	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 seem	advmod
18	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 brought	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 put	det
20	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 put	advmod
21	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 seem	xcomp
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 put	compound:prt
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 said	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 said	cc
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 brought	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 morning	punct
27	‘	'	PUNCT	_	31 morning	punct
28	To	to	ADP	_	31 morning	case
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 To	punct
30	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 morning	compound
31	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 said	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 sunrise	punct
33	before	before	ADP	_	34 sunrise	case
34	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 said	ccomp
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 brought	punct
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 go	nsubj
37	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 go	aux
38	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
39	to	to	ADP	_	41 wood	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 wood	det
41	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 go	obl
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 gather	cc
43	gather	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 go	conj
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 bunch	det
45	bunch	bunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 gather	obj
46	of	of	ADP	_	48 herbs	case
47	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 herbs	amod
48	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 bunch	nmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 rub	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 rub	cc
51	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	52 rub	advmod
52	rub	rub	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 go	conj
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 threshold	det
54	threshold	threshold	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 rub	obj
55	of	of	ADP	_	57 palace	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 palace	det
57	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 threshold	nmod
58	with	with	ADP	_	59 them	case
59	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 palace	nmod
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 see	punct
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 see	cc
62	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	64 see	nsubj
63	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	64 see	aux
64	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 go	parataxis
65	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	67 happen	nsubj
66	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	67 happen	aux
67	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	64 see	ccomp
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	64 see	punct
69	’	'	PUNCT	_	64 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	bring back	past	Cola	this answer	the snake			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent answer=Theme to snake=Destination
2	not seem	past · do-support	the little creature					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	put out	participle	the little creature not said here					vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past	Cola not said here				morning	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	go	must	you			the wood		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wood=Initial_Location
6	gather	infinitive	you not said here	a bunch of green herbs				vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bunch=Theme
7	rub	infinitive	you not said here	the threshold of the palace with Cola			then	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent threshold=Theme
8	see	future	you					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
9	happen	future						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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