The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 15

Cola-Mattheo, who was, as I have said before, a great simpleton, made no reply; but before sunrise next morning he went to the wood and gathered a bunch of St. John’s Wort, and rosemary, and suchlike herbs, and rubbed them, as he had been told, on the floor of the palace.

Who acts: Cola, creature · What happens: say, make, go, gather, rub, tell · To what, where: Cola, reply, wood, bunch, creature, floor · 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, creature), 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	Cola	Cola	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 made	nsubj
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Mattheo	punct
3	Mattheo	Mattheo	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Cola	flat
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 said	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	aux:pass
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 said	mark
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
10	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	aux
11	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Cola	parataxis
12	before	before	ADV	_	11 said	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 simpleton	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 simpleton	det
15	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 simpleton	amod
16	simpleton	simpleton	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cola	appos
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Cola	punct
18	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 reply	det
20	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 made	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 went	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 went	cc
23	before	before	ADP	_	26 morning	case
24	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 morning	compound
25	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 morning	amod
26	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 went	obl
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 went	nsubj
28	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 made	parataxis
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 wood	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 wood	det
31	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 went	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 gathered	cc
33	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 went	conj
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 bunch	det
35	bunch	bunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 gathered	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	40 Wort	case
37	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 John	nmod:desc
38	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 Wort	nmod:poss
39	’s	's	PART	_	38 John	case
40	Wort	wort	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 bunch	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 rosemary	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 rosemary	cc
43	rosemary	rosemary	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 made	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 herbs	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 herbs	cc
46	suchlike	suchlike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 herbs	amod
47	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 made	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 rubbed	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 rubbed	cc
50	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 made	parataxis
51	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 rubbed	obj
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 told	punct
53	as	as	SCONJ	_	57 told	mark
54	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 told	nsubj
55	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 told	aux
56	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	57 told	aux:pass
57	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	50 rubbed	conj
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 floor	punct
59	on	on	ADP	_	61 floor	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 floor	det
61	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 told	obl
62	of	of	ADP	_	64 palace	case
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 palace	det
64	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 floor	nmod
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		Cola			before property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
2	make	past	Cola	no reply			rosemary obl; suchlike herbs obl	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reply=Product
3	go	past	creature		the wood	morning		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wood=Initial_Location
4	gather	past	creature not said here	a bunch of John St.'s Wort				vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bunch=Theme
5	rub	past		Cola				vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme
6	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		creature	the floor of the palace			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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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