--- title: ‘Truly,’ said she, ‘a kind action never goes unrewarded; ‘and she an… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘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. A sentence of «The Red Fa --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/22/47/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Red Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/) / [The Little Good Mouse](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/22/) / 47 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg540:22:47 # text = ‘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. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Truly truly ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 8 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 action action NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 14 unrewarded unreward VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 16 ‘ ‘ PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 18 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 23 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 24 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 supper supper NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 satisfaction satisfaction NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 31 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 34 advmod _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 35 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 37 nsubj:pass _ _ 36 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux:pass _ _ 37 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 ccomp _ _ 38 to to ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 43 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 44 nsubj _ _ 44 danced dance VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 acl:relcl _ _ 45 better well ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 44 advmod _ _ 46 than than SCONJ IN _ 48 mark _ _ 47 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 48 advmod _ _ 48 afterwards afterwards ADV RB _ 45 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/22/46/) - next →: [sentence 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/22/48/) - ↑ back to [The Little Good Mouse](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/22/)