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title: Kari took up the shoe, put her foot into it as easily as possible, a… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Kari took up the shoe, put her foot into it as easily as possible, and then threw off her wooden gown, and there she stood in the golden gown which flashed like rays of sunshine, and on her other foot she had the fellow to the gold shoe. Who acts: Kari, golden gown. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book
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# The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 2, sentence 87

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Kari took up the shoe, put her foot into it as easily as possible, and then threw off her wooden gown, and there she stood in the golden gown which flashed like rays of sunshine, and on her other foot she had the fellow to the gold shoe.

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**Who acts:** Kari, golden gown · **What happens:** take up, put, throw off, stand, flash, have · **To what, where:** shoe, foot, wooden gown, golden gown, fellow, other foot

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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, golden gown), 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:pg540:30:87
# text = Kari took up the shoe, put her foot into it as easily as possible, and then threw off her wooden gown, and there she stood in the golden gown which flashed like rays of sunshine, and on her other foot she had the fellow to the gold shoe.
1	Kari	Kari	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	shoe	shoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
12	as	as	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
19	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
20	off	off	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	gown	gown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	advmod	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	gown	gown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
34	flashed	flash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	_
35	like	like	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	rays	ray	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
41	on	on	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
43	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
45	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	_
49	to	to	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	compound	_	_
52	shoe	shoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take up** | past | Kari | the shoe |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme |
| 2 | **put** | infinitive | Kari *not said here* | Kari's foot |  | foot |  | easily *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent foot=Goal |
| 3 | **throw off** | past | Kari *not said here* | Kari's wooden gown |  |  | then |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gown=Theme |
| 4 | **stand** | past | Kari |  |  | the golden gown; there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in gown=Location |
| 5 | **flash** | past | the golden gown |  |  |  |  | like rays of sunshine | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **have** | past | Kari | the fellow |  | Kari's other foot |  | to the gold shoe | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fellow=Patient |
| 7 | **ray** |  |  | sunshine |  |  |  |  | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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