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title: They leapt with delight, put out their heads, and cried to him: ‘We… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They leapt with delight, put out their heads, and cried to him: ‘We will remember you and repay you for saving us!’ Who acts: fishes, We. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The White Snake, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The White Snake, sentence 25

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They leapt with delight, put out their heads, and cried to him: ‘We will remember you and repay you for saving us!’

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**Who acts:** fishes, We · **What happens:** leapt, put out, cry, remember, repay, save · **To what, where:** heads, king, you, us

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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 (fishes, We), 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:pg2591:34:25
# text = They leapt with delight, put out their heads, and cried to him: ‘We will remember you and repay you for saving us!’
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	leapt	leapt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	repay	repay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	saving	save	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
26	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leapt** | present | fishes *= fish* |  |  |  |  | with delight | tree rules |
| 2 | **put out** | infinitive | fishes *= fish* *not said here* | fishes's heads |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent head=Goal |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | past |  |  | king |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
| 4 | **remember** | future | We | you |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 5 | **repay** | 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 |

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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:** «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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