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title: Then they came hopping up to it, satisfied their hunger, and cried:… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. 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 36

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Then they came hopping up to it, satisfied their hunger, and cried: ‘We will remember you--one good turn deserves another!’

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**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

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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 (horse, 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:pg2591:34:36
# text = Then they came hopping up to it, satisfied their hunger, and cried: ‘We will remember you--one good turn deserves another!’
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	hopping	hop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	satisfied	satisfy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	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	14	ccomp	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
23	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	deserves	deserve	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
26	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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