The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 2, sentence 41

Kari would not give in, but went on begging for leave till she got it, and then she ran up the stairs so that her wooden gown clattered again.

Who acts: Kari · What happens: not give in, go, beg, get, run up, clatter · To what, where: leave, stairs, wooden gown

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kari), 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	Kari	Kari	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 give	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 give	advmod
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADV	_	4 give	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 went	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 went	cc
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 give	conj
9	on	on	SCONJ	_	10 begging	mark
10	begging	beg	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 went	advcl
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 leave	case
12	leave	leave	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 begging	obl
13	till	till	SCONJ	_	15 got	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 got	nsubj
15	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 begging	advcl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 got	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 ran	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 ran	cc
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 ran	advmod
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 ran	nsubj
21	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 give	conj
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 ran	compound:prt
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 stairs	det
24	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 ran	obj
25	so	so	SCONJ	_	29 gown	case
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 so	fixed
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 gown	nmod:poss
28	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 gown	amod
29	gown	gown	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ran	obl
30	clattered	clatter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 gown	acl
31	again	again	ADV	_	30 clattered	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not give in	would	Kari				vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go	past	Kari not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	beg speech: request	gerund	Kari not said here			for leave	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for leave=Topic
4	get	past	Kari	leave			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
5	run up	past	Kari	the stairs	then	so Kari's wooden gown	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stair=Trajectory
6	clatter	participle		Kari's wooden gown not said here	again		vn sound_emission-43.2 «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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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