The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 2, sentence 58

Kari begged for leave to go with it, but the others reminded her of what had happened last time, and scolded her for wanting to let the Prince see her when she was so black and so ugly in her wooden gown, but she would not give up asking until they gave her leave to go up to the Prince with the comb.

Who acts: Kari, others, Prince · What happens: beg, go, remind, happen, scold, want · To what, where: Kari, Prince, wooden gown · Speech: someone speaks here

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, others, Prince), 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	2 begged	nsubj
2	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 leave	case
4	leave	leave	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 begged	obl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 go	mark
6	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 begged	ccomp
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 go	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 reminded	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 reminded	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 others	det
12	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 reminded	nsubj
13	reminded	remind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 begged	conj
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 reminded	iobj
15	of	of	SCONJ	_	18 happened	mark
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 happened	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 happened	aux
18	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 reminded	advcl
19	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 time	amod
20	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 happened	obl:unmarked
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 scolded	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 scolded	cc
23	scolded	scold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 begged	conj
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 scolded	obj
25	for	for	SCONJ	_	26 wanting	mark
26	wanting	want	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 scolded	advcl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 let	mark
28	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 wanting	xcomp
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Prince	det
30	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 let	obj
31	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 let	xcomp
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 see	obj
33	when	when	SCONJ	_	37 black	mark
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 black	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 black	cop
36	so	so	ADV	_	37 black	advmod
37	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 see	ccomp
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 ugly	cc
39	so	so	ADV	_	40 ugly	advmod
40	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 black	conj
41	in	in	ADP	_	44 gown	case
42	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 gown	nmod:poss
43	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 gown	amod
44	gown	gown	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 ugly	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 give	punct
46	but	but	CCONJ	_	50 give	cc
47	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 give	nsubj
48	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 give	aux
49	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	50 give	advmod
50	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 begged	conj
51	up	up	ADP	_	50 give	compound:prt
52	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	50 give	advcl
53	until	until	SCONJ	_	55 gave	mark
54	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 gave	nsubj
55	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 asking	ccomp
56	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 gave	iobj
57	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 gave	xcomp
58	to	to	PART	_	59 go	mark
59	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	57 leave	xcomp
60	up	up	ADP	_	59 go	compound:prt
61	to	to	ADP	_	63 Prince	case
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 Prince	det
63	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	59 go	obl
64	with	with	ADP	_	66 comb	case
65	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 comb	det
66	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 go	obl
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	Kari					for leave	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go not said to happen	to-infinitive						with leave	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with it=Beneficiary
3	remind speech: other	past	the others		Kari				vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
4	happen	past · perfect					time		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	scold	past	Kari not said here	Kari					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
6	want	gerund	Kari not said here						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	let not said to happen	to-infinitive	Kari not said here	the Prince					tree rules
8	see	infinitive	the Prince not said here	Kari					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
9	is	past	Kari					black property	tree rules
10	be		Kari not said here			Kari's wooden gown			tree rules
11	not give up	would	Kari						vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
12	ask speech: ask	gerund	Kari not said here						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
13	give	past	others = other		Kari				tree rules
14	leave	infinitive	others = other not said here						tree rules
15	go up	to-infinitive	others = other not said here					to the Prince; with the comb	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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