The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 2, sentence 85

‘Kari!’ he called out through the door, and Kari came upstairs, and her wooden gown clattered as if a whole regiment of dragoons were coming up.

Who acts: Kari, wooden gown, whole regiment · What happens: call out, come, clatter, come up · To what, where: door

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, wooden gown, whole regiment), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Kari	punct
2	Kari	Kari	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 called	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Kari	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Kari	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 called	nsubj
6	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 called	compound:prt
8	through	through	ADP	_	10 door	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 door	det
10	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 called	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 came	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 came	cc
13	Kari	Kari	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 came	nsubj
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 called	parataxis
15	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	_	14 came	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 clattered	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 clattered	cc
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 gown	nmod:poss
19	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 gown	amod
20	gown	gown	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 clattered	nsubj
21	clattered	clatter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 came	conj
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 coming	mark
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 coming	mark
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 regiment	det
25	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 regiment	amod
26	regiment	regiment	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 coming	nsubj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 dragoons	case
28	dragoons	dragoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 regiment	nmod
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 coming	aux
30	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 clattered	advcl
31	up	up	ADV	_	30 coming	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	call out speech: assert	past	Kari	the door		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come	past	Kari		upstairs property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	clatter	participle	Kari's wooden gown			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come up	past · progressive	a whole regiment of dragoons			vn escape-51.1-1 «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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