The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 144
“You see a good action always brings its reward,” and the Prince found himself changed into a beautiful white dove.
Who acts: You, good action, Prince, action · What happens: see, bring, find, change, reward · To what, where: reward, prince, beautiful white dove · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (You, good action, Prince, action), 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 | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 action | det |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 action | amod |
| 6 | action | action | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 brings | nsubj |
| 7 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 8 brings | advmod |
| 8 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | ccomp |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 reward | nmod:poss |
| 10 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 brings | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 found | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Prince | det |
| 15 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 found | nsubj |
| 16 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | conj |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 found | obj |
| 18 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 found | ccomp |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 dove | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 dove | det |
| 21 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 dove | amod |
| 22 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 dove | amod |
| 23 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 changed | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | present | You | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | bring in a quote | present | a good action | action's reward | always property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent reward=Theme | |||
| 3 | find | past | the Prince | prince | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | change | participle | into a beautiful white dove result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into dove=Result | |||||
| 5 | reward in a quote | action | nom reward «event transitive»: poss=agent |
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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