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title: After a long, long while came Kari Woodengown’s wicked stepmother, w… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After a long, long while came Kari Woodengown’s wicked stepmother, with her daughter too, and the shoe fitted her. Who acts: shoe. 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 76

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After a long, long while came Kari Woodengown’s wicked stepmother, with her daughter too, and the shoe fitted her.

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**Who acts:** shoe · **What happens:** come, fit · **To what, where:** wicked stepmother, stepmother

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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 (shoe), 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:pg540:30:76
# text = After a long, long while came Kari Woodengown’s wicked stepmother, with her daughter too, and the shoe fitted her.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
8	Kari	Kari	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	_
9	Woodengown	Woodengown	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
11	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
17	too	too	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	shoe	shoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	fitted	fit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past |  | Kari's wicked stepmother |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stepmother=Theme |
| 2 | **fit** | past | the shoe | stepmother |  |  |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |

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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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