Grimms' Fairy Tales, The White Snake, sentence 36
Then they came hopping up to it, satisfied their hunger, and cried: ‘We will remember you--one good turn deserves another!’
Who acts: horse, We, one good turn · What happens: come, hop up, satisfy, cry, remember, deserve · To what, where: sword, hunger, you, another · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (horse, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | hopping | hop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 came | advcl |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 hopping | compound:prt |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hopping | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 satisfied | punct |
| 9 | satisfied | satisfy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hunger | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 satisfied | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 cried | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 cried | cc |
| 14 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 remember | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 remember | punct |
| 17 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 remember | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 remember | aux |
| 19 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 cried | ccomp |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 remember | obj |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 25 deserves | punct |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 turn | nummod |
| 23 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 turn | amod |
| 24 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 deserves | nsubj |
| 25 | deserves | deserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 remember | conj |
| 26 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 deserves | obj |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 19 remember | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 remember | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | horse | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hop up | gerund | horse not said here | sword | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to it=Destination | ||||
| 3 | satisfy | past | horse not said here | horse's hunger | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hunger=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | past | horse not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | remember | future | We | you | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 6 | deserve | present | one good turn | another | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | hunger | horse | nom hunger «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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