The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 122

“A good action should never go unrewarded,” and at the same instant the monster disappeared, and he saw at his feet only a pretty little dog!

Who acts: good action, monster · What happens: not go, unreward, disappear, see · To what, where: same instant, pretty little dog, feet

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good action, monster), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 go	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 action	det
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 action	amod
4	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	nsubj
5	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 go	aux
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 go	advmod
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	unrewarded	unreward	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 go	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 go	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 go	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 disappeared	cc
12	at	at	ADP	_	15 instant	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 instant	det
14	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 instant	amod
15	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 disappeared	obl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 monster	det
17	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 disappeared	nsubj
18	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 go	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 saw	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 saw	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 saw	nsubj
22	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 disappeared	advcl
23	at	at	ADP	_	25 feet	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 feet	nmod:poss
25	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 saw	obl
26	only	only	ADV	_	30 dog	advmod
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 dog	det
28	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 dog	amod
29	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 dog	amod
30	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 saw	obl
31	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not go in a quote	should	a good action			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	unreward in a quote	participle	a good action not said here			tree rules
3	disappear	past	the monster		the same instant	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see	past	monster	a pretty little dog	monster's feet	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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