Grimms' Fairy Tales, The White Snake, sentence 29
So he turned on to a side path and the ant-king cried out to him: ‘We will remember you--one good turn deserves another!’
Who acts: king, ant king, We, one good turn · What happens: turn on, cry out, remember, deserve · To what, where: snake, you, another
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The White 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, ant king, We, one good turn), 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 | _ | 3 turned | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 turned | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 path | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 path | det |
| 7 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 path | compound |
| 8 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 cried | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 11 | ant | ant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 king | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 ant | punct |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cried | nsubj |
| 14 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 cried | compound:prt |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 cried | obl |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 remember | punct |
| 19 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 remember | punct |
| 20 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 remember | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 remember | aux |
| 22 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 cried | parataxis |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 remember | obj |
| 24 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 28 deserves | punct |
| 25 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 turn | nummod |
| 26 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 turn | amod |
| 27 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 deserves | nsubj |
| 28 | deserves | deserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 remember | conj |
| 29 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 deserves | obj |
| 30 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 22 remember | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 remember | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn on | past | king | to a side path | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | cry out speech: express | past | the ant king | snake | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | remember | future | We | you | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 4 | deserve | present | one good turn | another | 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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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