The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 91

And so she did; but, in spite of her care, the husband died, and was buried by the stranger.

Who acts: debt, husband, stranger · What happens: do, die, bury, spite, care · To what, where: care

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (debt, husband, stranger), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 did	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	4 did	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 died	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 died	cc
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 but	punct
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 spite	case
9	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 died	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 care	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 care	nmod:poss
12	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 spite	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 spite	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 husband	det
15	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 died	nsubj
16	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 buried	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 buried	cc
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 buried	aux:pass
20	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 died	advcl
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 stranger	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 stranger	det
23	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 buried	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	debt			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	die	past	the husband		in spite of debt's care	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in spite=Attribute
3	bury	past · passive	the stranger			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	spite			debt's care		nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient
5	care		debt			nom care «act intransitive»: poss=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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