--- title: ‘When we enter into this wood, you must take the greatest care not t… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘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. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Wo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/29/35/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Red Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/) / [Kari Woodengown, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/29/) / 35 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg540:29:35 # text = ‘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.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 3 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 enter enter VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 5 into into ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 7 det _ _ 7 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 greatest great ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 14 amod _ _ 14 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 touch touch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 leaf leaf NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 23 or or CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 24 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 28 det _ _ 25 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 26 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 28 cop _ _ 27 over over ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 30 nsubj _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 parataxis _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 with with ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 for for ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 Troll troll NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 38 with with ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 40 nummod _ _ 40 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 42 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 45 nsubj _ _ 43 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 owner owner NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 appos _ _ 46 of of ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 50 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 51 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 50 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 53 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/29/34/) - next →: [sentence 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/29/36/) - ↑ back to [Kari Woodengown, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/29/)