The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 1, sentence 35

‘When we enter into this wood, you must take the greatest care not to touch a leaf of it, or all will be over both with me and with you, for a Troll with three heads, who is the owner of the wood, lives here.’

Who acts: we, you, three heads · What happens: enter, take, not touch, be, live · To what, where: wood, greatest care, leaf, owner

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, you, three heads), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 take	punct
2	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 enter	advmod
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 enter	nsubj
4	enter	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 take	advcl
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 wood	case
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 wood	det
7	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 enter	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 enter	punct
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 take	nsubj
10	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 take	aux
11	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 care	det
13	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 care	amod
14	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 take	obj
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 touch	advmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 touch	mark
17	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 take	advcl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 leaf	det
19	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 touch	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 leaf	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 me	punct
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 me	cc
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 both	det
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 both	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 both	cop
27	over	over	ADP	_	28 both	case
28	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	30 me	nsubj
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 me	case
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 take	parataxis
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 you	cc
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 you	case
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 me	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 Troll	punct
35	for	for	ADP	_	37 Troll	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 Troll	det
37	Troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 take	obl
38	with	with	ADP	_	40 heads	case
39	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	40 heads	nummod
40	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 Troll	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 owner	punct
42	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 owner	nsubj
43	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 owner	cop
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 owner	det
45	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 heads	appos
46	of	of	ADP	_	48 wood	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 wood	det
48	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 owner	nmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 lives	punct
50	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 take	conj
51	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	50 lives	advmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 take	punct
53	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	enter	present	we		this wood		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into wood=Initial_Location
2	take	must	you	the greatest care		for a Troll with three heads	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent care=Theme for troll=Beneficiary
3	not touch	to-infinitive	you not said here	a leaf of care			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme leaf=Co-Theme
4	is a	present	three heads	the owner		of the wood	tree rules
5	live	present	you not said here		here		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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.

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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