The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 25

But that did no good as far as the pea-hens went.

Who acts: pea hens · What happens: go

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pea hens), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 good	cc
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 good	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 good	aux
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 good	det
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 far	advmod
7	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 good	advmod
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 went	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hens	det
10	pea	pea	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hens	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 pea	punct
12	hens	hen	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 far	advcl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 good	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the pea hens						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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