The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 20

So Cola-Mattheo rose at cock-crow, took a large basket under his arm, and carefully collected all the broken fragments of pots and pans, and jugs and lamps, and other trash of that sort.

Who acts: Cola · What happens: rise, take, collect, break · To what, where: jugs, large basket, arm, broken fragments

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), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 rose	advmod
2	Cola	Cola	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 rose	nsubj
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Cola	punct
4	Mattheo	Mattheo	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Cola	flat
5	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	9 crow	case
7	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 crow	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 cock	punct
9	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rose	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 took	punct
11	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rose	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 basket	det
13	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 basket	amod
14	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 took	obj
15	under	under	ADP	_	17 arm	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 arm	nmod:poss
17	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 took	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 collected	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 collected	cc
20	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	21 collected	advmod
21	collected	collect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rose	conj
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 fragments	det:predet
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 fragments	det
24	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 fragments	amod
25	fragments	fragment	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 collected	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 pots	case
27	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 fragments	nmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 pans	cc
29	pans	pan	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 pots	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 jugs	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 jugs	cc
32	jugs	jug	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rose	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 lamps	cc
34	lamps	lamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 jugs	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 trash	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 trash	cc
37	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 trash	amod
38	trash	trash	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 jugs	conj
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 sort	case
40	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	41 sort	det
41	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 trash	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rise	past	Cola	jugs and lamps and other trash of that sort		at cock crow	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at crow=Location
2	take	past	Cola not said here	a large basket	King's arm		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Theme
3	collect	past	Cola not said here	all broken fragments of pots and pans		carefully property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fragment=Theme
4	break	participle					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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