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title: ‘A slice off her heel And a slice off her toes, Kari Woodengown’s sh… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘A slice off her heel And a slice off her toes, Kari Woodengown’s shoe Fills with blood as she goes!’ Who acts: stepmother. 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 79

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‘A slice off her heel And a slice off her toes, Kari Woodengown’s shoe Fills with blood as she goes!’

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**Who acts:** stepmother · **What happens:** go

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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 (stepmother), 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:pg540:30:79
# text = ‘A slice off her heel And a slice off her toes, Kari Woodengown’s shoe Fills with blood as she goes!’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	slice	slice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	heel	heel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	slice	slice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	off	off	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	toes	toe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	Kari	Kari	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	_
15	Woodengown	Woodengown	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’s	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
17	shoe	shoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Fills	fill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | stepmother |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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