The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 2, sentence 61

Again they all asked what she would do there, she who was so black and ugly, and had no clothes that she could be seen in by other people.

Who acts: stairs, Kari, other people · What happens: ask, do, be, have, see in · To what, where: clothes, Kari · 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 (stairs, Kari, other people), 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	Again	again	ADV	_	4 asked	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 asked	nsubj
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 they	det
4	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 do	obj
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 do	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 do	aux
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 asked	ccomp
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 do	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 black	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 black	nsubj
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 black	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 black	cop
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 black	advmod
15	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 asked	parataxis
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 ugly	cc
17	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 black	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 had	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 had	cc
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 asked	conj
21	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	22 clothes	det
22	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	20 had	obj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 seen	mark
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 seen	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 seen	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 seen	aux:pass
27	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 had	advcl
28	in	in	ADP	_	27 seen	compound:prt
29	by	by	ADP	_	31 people	case
30	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 people	amod
31	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 seen	obl:agent
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	stairs = stair			again		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	would	Kari		there			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	is	past	Kari				black property	tree rules
4	be		Kari not said here					tree rules
5	have	past	stairs = stair not said here	no clothes				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient
6	see in	could · passive	other people	Kari				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus

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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