The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 81

But she was not ill at all, only very unhappy at the death of the buffalo which had served her so well.

Who acts: wife, buffalo · What happens: not be, be, serve, die · To what, where: all, wife, death

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, buffalo), 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 ill	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ill	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ill	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 ill	advmod
5	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 ill	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 unhappy	punct
9	only	only	ADV	_	11 unhappy	advmod
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 unhappy	advmod
11	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ill	conj
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 death	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 death	det
14	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 served	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 buffalo	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 buffalo	det
17	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 death	nmod
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 served	nsubj:pass
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 served	aux
20	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 unhappy	conj
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 served	obj
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 well	advmod
23	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 served	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ill	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	past	wife		all	ill property	tree rules
2	be		wife not said here				tree rules
3	serve	past · perfect · passive		wife	the death of the buffalo	well property	tree rules
4	die		the buffalo				nom death «event intransitive»: of=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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