--- title: But when Cola-Mattheo came next day, and, in the name of the snake,… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: But when Cola-Mattheo came next day, and, in the name of the snake, demanded the hand of the Princess, the King replied, ‘Don’t be in such a hurry; if the snake really wants to marry my daughter, he must do some more things first, and one of these is to turn all the paths and walls of my garden into --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/25/18/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Green Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/) / [The Enchanted Snake](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/25/) / 18 # The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 18 But when Cola-Mattheo came next day, and, in the name of the snake, demanded the hand of the Princess, the King replied, ‘Don’t be in such a hurry; if the snake really wants to marry my daughter, he must do some more things first, and one of these is to turn all the paths and walls of my garden into pure gold before noon to-morrow.’ **Who acts:** Cola, name, King, snake, one · **What happens:** come, demand, reply, not be, want, marry · **To what, where:** hand, Princess, hurry, daughter, more things, pure gold 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, name, King, snake), 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:pg7277:25:18 # text = But when Cola-Mattheo came next day, and, in the name of the snake, demanded the hand of the Princess, the King replied, ‘Don’t be in such a hurry; if the snake really wants to marry my daughter, he must do some more things first, and one of these is to turn all the paths and walls of my garden into pure gold before noon to-morrow.’ 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 2 when when SCONJ WRB _ 6 mark _ _ 3 Cola Cola PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 Mattheo Mattheo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 flat _ _ 6 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 7 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 19 demanded demand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 30 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 Do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 32 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 37 advmod _ _ 33 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 37 cop _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 37 det:predet _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 hurry hurry NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ; ; PUNCT : _ 51 punct _ _ 39 if if SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 42 really really ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 43 wants want VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 51 advcl _ _ 44 to to PART TO _ 45 mark _ _ 45 marry marry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 43 xcomp _ _ 46 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 47 nmod:poss _ _ 47 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 49 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 51 nsubj _ _ 50 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 51 aux _ _ 51 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 52 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 54 det _ _ 53 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 54 amod _ _ 54 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 51 obj _ _ 55 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 51 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 56 , , PUNCT , _ 63 punct _ _ 57 and and CCONJ CC _ 63 cc _ _ 58 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 63 nsubj _ _ 59 of of ADP IN _ 60 case _ _ 60 these this PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 58 nmod _ _ 61 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 63 cop _ _ 62 to to PART TO _ 63 mark _ _ 63 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 51 conj _ _ 64 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 66 det:predet _ _ 65 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 66 det _ _ 66 paths path NOUN NNS Number=Plur 63 obj _ _ 67 and and CCONJ CC _ 68 cc _ _ 68 walls wall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 66 conj _ _ 69 of of ADP IN _ 71 case _ _ 70 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 71 nmod:poss _ _ 71 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 66 nmod _ _ 72 into into ADP IN _ 74 case _ _ 73 pure pure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 74 amod _ _ 74 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 63 obl _ _ 75 before before ADP IN _ 76 case _ _ 76 noon noon NOUN NN Number=Sing 63 obl _ _ 77 to to ADP IN _ 79 case _ SpaceAfter=No 78 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 77 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 79 morrow morrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 76 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 80 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 81 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | Cola | | | | day | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **demand** *speech: request* | past | the name of the snake | the hand of the Princess | | | | | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hand=Precondition | | 3 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the King | the Princess *not said here* | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent princess=Topic | | 4 | **not** **is** | infinitive · do-support | | | | such hurry | | | tree rules | | 5 | **want** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the snake | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 6 | **marry** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the snake *not said here* | my daughter | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | | 7 | **do** | must | King | some more things | | | | first *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | | 8 | **is** | present | one of these | | | pure gold | noon | turn *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **name** | | | the snake | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: of=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. - ← previous: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/25/17/) - next →: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/25/19/) - ↑ back to [The Enchanted Snake](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/25/)