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title: Again they all asked what she would do there, she who was so black a… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 2, sentence 61

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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.

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**Who acts:** stairs, Kari, other people · **What happens:** ask, do, be, have, see in · **To what, where:** clothes, Kari · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (stairs, Kari, other people), 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:pg540:30:61
# text = 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.
1	Again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
4	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
9	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	22	det	_	_
22	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	20	obj	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	advcl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl:agent	_	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 | **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 |

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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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