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title: So he turned on to a side path and the ant-king cried out to him: ‘W… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. 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 29

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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!’

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**Who acts:** king, ant king, We, one good turn · **What happens:** turn on, cry out, remember, deserve · **To what, where:** snake, you, another

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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 (king, ant king, We, one good turn), 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:pg2591:34:29
# text = 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!’
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	ant	ant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	parataxis	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
26	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	deserves	deserve	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
29	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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