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title: Kari would not give in, but went on begging for leave till she got i… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 2, sentence 41

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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.

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

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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.

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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:pg540:30:41
# text = 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.
1	Kari	Kari	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	begging	beg	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	leave	leave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	stairs	stair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
25	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	fixed	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	gown	gown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
30	clattered	clatter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl	_	_
31	again	again	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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 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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