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title: ‘Kari!’ he called out through the door, and Kari came upstairs, and… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘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. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 2, with its dependency tree and the p
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# The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 2, sentence 85

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‘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.

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

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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, wooden gown, whole regiment), 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:pg540:30:85
# text = ‘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.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Kari	Kari	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	through	through	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	Kari	Kari	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
15	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	gown	gown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	clattered	clatter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
22	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
23	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	regiment	regiment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	dragoons	dragoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
29	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
31	up	up	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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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