The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 120

This plan was by no means new, but it had often succeeded, and, anyhow, they could think of nothing better.

Who acts: plan, princesses · What happens: be, succeed, think · To what, where: plan

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plan, princesses), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 plan	det
2	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 means	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 means	cop
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 no	case
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 means	obl
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 means	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 succeeded	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 succeeded	cc
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 succeeded	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 succeeded	aux
12	often	often	ADV	_	13 succeeded	advmod
13	succeeded	succeed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 means	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 think	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 think	cc
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 and	punct
17	anyhow	anyhow	INTJ	_	21 think	discourse
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 anyhow	punct
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 think	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 think	aux
21	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 succeeded	conj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 nothing	case
23	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	21 think	obl
24	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 think	ccomp
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	this plan		by no; mean, new property	tree rules
2	succeed	past · perfect · passive		plan	often property	tree rules
3	think speech: other	could	princesses = princess		of nothing	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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