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title: So Cola-Mattheo rose at cock-crow, took a large basket under his arm… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Snake, with its dependency tre
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 20

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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.

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

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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.

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**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:pg7277:25:20
# text = 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.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	Cola	Cola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Mattheo	Mattheo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
5	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	cock	cock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	under	under	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	collected	collect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
22	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	25	det:predet	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	amod	_	_
25	fragments	fragment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	pots	pot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	pans	pan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	jugs	jug	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	lamps	lamp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	trash	trash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	41	det	_	_
41	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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.

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**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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