The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 19

When the snake was told of this new condition, he replied, ‘To-morrow morning, early, you must go and collect all the odds and ends of rubbish you can find in the streets, and then take them and throw them on the paths and walls of the garden, and you’ll see then if we won’t be more than a match for the old King.’

Who acts: King, you, we · What happens: tell, reply, go, collect, find, take · To what, where: snake, odds, rubbish, streets, paths · 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 (King, you, we), 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	SCONJ	_	5 told	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 snake	det
3	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	aux:pass
5	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 go	advcl
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 condition	case
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 condition	det
8	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 condition	amod
9	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 replied	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 replied	nsubj
12	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 morning	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 morning	punct
15	To	to	ADP	_	18 morning	case
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 To	punct
17	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 morning	compound
18	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 replied	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 early	punct
20	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 told	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 go	nsubj
23	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 go	aux
24	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 collect	cc
26	collect	collect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 go	conj
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 odds	det:predet
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 odds	det
29	odds	odd	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 collect	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 ends	cc
31	ends	end	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 odds	conj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 rubbish	case
33	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 ends	nmod
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 find	nsubj
35	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 find	aux
36	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 rubbish	acl:relcl
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 streets	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 streets	det
39	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 find	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 take	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 take	cc
42	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	43 take	advmod
43	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	24 go	parataxis
44	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 take	obj
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 throw	cc
46	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	43 take	conj
47	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 throw	obj
48	on	on	ADP	_	50 paths	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 paths	det
50	paths	path	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 throw	obl
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 walls	cc
52	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 paths	conj
53	of	of	ADP	_	55 garden	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 garden	det
55	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 walls	nmod
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 see	punct
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 see	cc
58	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	60 see	nsubj
59	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	60 see	aux
60	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 go	conj
61	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	60 see	advmod
62	if	if	SCONJ	_	67 more	mark
63	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	67 more	nsubj
64	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	67 more	aux
65	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	67 more	advmod
66	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	67 more	cop
67	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	60 see	obj
68	than	than	ADP	_	70 match	case
69	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	70 match	det
70	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 more	obl
71	for	for	ADP	_	74 King	case
72	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	74 King	det
73	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	74 King	amod
74	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	70 match	nmod
75	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 go	punct
76	’	'	PUNCT	_	24 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · passive		the snake			of this new condition; early property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	reply speech: assert	past	King			morning		vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go	must	you					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	collect	infinitive	you not said here	all odds and ends of rubbish				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent odd=Theme
5	find	can	you	rubbish not said here	the streets			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rubbish=Topic
6	take	infinitive		odds = odd		then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
7	throw	infinitive		odds = odd	the paths and walls of the garden			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme on path=Destination
8	see	future	you			then		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
9	not is a condition, not said to happen	future	we				than a match for the old King; more property	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 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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