--- title: Cola-Mattheo, who was, as I have said before, a great simpleton, mad… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: 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. 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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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7277:25:15 # text = 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. 1 Cola Cola PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 Mattheo Mattheo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 5 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 as as SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 9 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 said say VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 parataxis _ _ 12 before before ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 simpleton simpleton NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 18 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 19 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 20 det _ _ 20 reply reply NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 23 before before ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 sunrise sunrise NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 25 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 parataxis _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 gathered gather VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 bunch bunch NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 37 St. St. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nmod:desc _ _ 38 John John PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ’s 's PART POS _ 38 case _ _ 40 Wort wort NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 rosemary rosemary NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 46 suchlike suchlike ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 herbs herb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 49 and and CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 50 rubbed rub VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 parataxis _ _ 51 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 50 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 52 , , PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 53 as as SCONJ IN _ 57 mark _ _ 54 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 57 nsubj _ _ 55 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 57 aux _ _ 56 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 57 aux:pass _ _ 57 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 50 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 58 , , PUNCT , _ 61 punct _ _ 59 on on ADP IN _ 61 case _ _ 60 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 61 det _ _ 61 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 obl _ _ 62 of of ADP IN _ 64 case _ _ 63 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 64 det _ _ 64 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 65 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to 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. - ← previous: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/25/14/) - next →: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/25/16/) - ↑ back to [The Enchanted Snake](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/25/)