The Green Fairy Book, The White Snake, sentence 27

They flapped with joy, and stretching up their heads cried to him: ‘We will remember, and reward you for saving us.’

Who acts: prisoners, stretching, We · What happens: flap, stretch up, cry, remember, reward, save · To what, where: heads, haste, you, us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, 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 (prisoners, stretching, We), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 flapped	nsubj
2	flapped	flap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 joy	case
4	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flapped	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cried	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 cried	cc
7	stretching	stretch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 cried	csubj
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 stretching	compound:prt
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 heads	nmod:poss
10	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stretching	obj
11	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 flapped	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 cried	obl
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 remember	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 remember	punct
16	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 remember	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 remember	aux
18	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 flapped	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 reward	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 reward	cc
21	reward	reward	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 remember	conj
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 reward	obj
23	for	for	SCONJ	_	24 saving	mark
24	saving	save	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 reward	advcl
25	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 saving	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 remember	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 remember	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	flap	past	prisoners = prisoner			with joy	vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stretch up	gerund		prisoners's heads			vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent head=Patient
3	cry speech: express	past	stretching		haste		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
4	remember	future	We				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
5	reward	infinitive	We not said here		you		vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
6	save	gerund	We not said here	us			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme

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.

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