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title: Before the Bull went into the wood, he said to the King’s daughter:… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Before the Bull went into the wood, he said to the King’s daughter: ‘When we enter into this wood you must, for Heaven’s sake, be very careful not to touch anything at all, and not to pluck off even so much as one leaf, or else all will be over both with you and with me. Who acts: Bull, we. A senten
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# The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 1, sentence 50

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Before the Bull went into the wood, he said to the King’s daughter: ‘When we enter into this wood you must, for Heaven’s sake, be very careful not to touch anything at all, and not to pluck off even so much as one leaf, or else all will be over both with you and with me.

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**Who acts:** Bull, we · **What happens:** go, say, enter, be, not touch, not pluck off · **To what, where:** wood, anything, all, much · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Bull, we), 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:pg540:29:50
# text = Before the Bull went into the wood, he said to the King’s daughter: ‘When we enter into this wood you must, for Heaven’s sake, be very careful not to touch anything at all, and not to pluck off even so much as one leaf, or else all will be over both with you and with me.
1	Before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’s	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
19	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	enter	enter	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	’s	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	cop	_	_
33	very	very	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
35	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	touch	touch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	advcl	_	_
38	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	37	obj	_	_
39	at	at	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
43	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	45	advmod	_	_
44	to	to	PART	TO	_	45	mark	_	_
45	pluck	pluck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
46	off	off	ADP	RP	_	45	compound:prt	_	_
47	even	even	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
48	so	so	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
49	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	obj	_	_
50	as	as	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	52	nummod	_	_
52	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	65	punct	_	_
54	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	65	cc	_	_
55	else	else	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	_
56	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	65	nsubj	_	_
57	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	60	aux	_	_
58	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	60	cop	_	_
59	over	over	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
60	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	56	conj	_	_
61	with	with	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
62	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	56	nmod	_	_
63	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	65	cc	_	_
64	with	with	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
65	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	45	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the Bull |  |  | the wood |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into wood=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | bull |  |  |  |  | to the King's daughter | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to daughter=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 3 | **enter** | present | we |  |  | this wood |  | for Heaven's sake | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into wood=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **is** | infinitive | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  | careful *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **touch** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | anything |  | all |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme anything=Co-Theme |
| 6 | **not** **pluck off** | to-infinitive | bull *not said here* | much |  |  |  | as one leaf | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=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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