The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 46

The scheme he had devised before had been of no use, and now good counsel was scarce.

Who acts: steward, scheme, good counsel · What happens: devise, be · To what, where: scheme

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (steward, scheme, good counsel), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 scheme	det
2	scheme	scheme	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 use	nsubj
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 devised	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 devised	aux
5	devised	devise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 scheme	acl:relcl
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	5 devised	advmod
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 use	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 use	cop
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 use	case
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 use	det
11	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 scarce	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 scarce	cc
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 scarce	advmod
15	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 counsel	amod
16	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 scarce	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 scarce	cop
18	scarce	scarce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 use	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 use	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	devise	past · perfect	steward	the scheme not said here			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scheme=Patient
2	is	past · perfect	the scheme			of no use	tree rules
3	is	past	good counsel		now	scarce property	tree rules

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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