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title: And so she did; but, in spite of her care, the husband died, and was… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And so she did; but, in spite of her care, the husband died, and was buried by the stranger. Who acts: debt, husband, stranger. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 91

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

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

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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.

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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:pg3027:31:91
# text = And so she did; but, in spite of her care, the husband died, and was buried by the stranger.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	advcl	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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 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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