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title: The scheme he had devised before had been of no use, and now good co… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The scheme he had devised before had been of no use, and now good counsel was scarce. Who acts: steward, scheme, good counsel. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 46

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

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

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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.

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**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:pg5615:13:46
# text = The scheme he had devised before had been of no use, and now good counsel was scarce.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	scheme	scheme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	devised	devise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
8	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	cop	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
11	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
15	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	scarce	scarce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | 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 |

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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.

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**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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