The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 47

‘Truly,’ said she, ‘a kind action never goes unrewarded; ‘and she and the little Princess ate their supper with great satisfaction, and then the Queen gave what was left to the little mouse, who danced better than ever afterwards.

Who acts: Queen, kind action, little mouse · What happens: say, not go, unreward, eat, give, leave · To what, where: supper, little mouse · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, kind action, little mouse), 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	_	5 said	punct
2	Truly	truly	ADV	_	5 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Truly	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 goes	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 goes	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 action	det
10	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 action	amod
11	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 goes	nsubj
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 goes	advmod
13	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
14	unrewarded	unreward	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 goes	xcomp
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
16	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	23 ate	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 ate	cc
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 ate	nsubj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 Princess	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Princess	det
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Princess	amod
22	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 she	conj
23	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	parataxis
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 supper	nmod:poss
25	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ate	obj
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 satisfaction	case
27	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 satisfaction	amod
28	satisfaction	satisfaction	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ate	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 gave	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 gave	cc
31	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 gave	advmod
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Queen	det
33	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 gave	nsubj
34	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 ate	conj
35	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	37 left	nsubj:pass
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 left	aux:pass
37	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 gave	ccomp
38	to	to	ADP	_	41 mouse	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 mouse	det
40	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 mouse	amod
41	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 left	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 danced	punct
43	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 danced	nsubj
44	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 mouse	acl:relcl
45	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	44 danced	advmod
46	than	than	SCONJ	_	48 afterwards	mark
47	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	48 afterwards	advmod
48	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	45 better	advcl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Queen				truly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not go	present	a kind action					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	unreward	participle	a kind action not said here					tree rules
4	eat	past	Queen	table's supper			with great satisfaction	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Patient
5	give	past	the Queen			then		tree rules
6	leave	past · passive			the little mouse			vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to mouse=Recipient
7	dance	past	the little mouse				well property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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