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title: The Bull told the King’s daughter that on no account was she to touc… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Bull told the King’s daughter that on no account was she to touch it, for there was a Troll with nine heads who was the owner, and that he was much larger and stronger than both the others put together, and that he did not believe that he could overcome him. Who acts: Bull, daughter, Troll, nine
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# The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 1, sentence 71

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The Bull told the King’s daughter that on no account was she to touch it, for there was a Troll with nine heads who was the owner, and that he was much larger and stronger than both the others put together, and that he did not believe that he could overcome him.

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**Who acts:** Bull, daughter, Troll, nine heads, others · **What happens:** tell, be, put together, not believe, overcome · **To what, where:** daughter, account, owner, Troll · **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, daughter, Troll, nine heads), 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:pg540:29:71
# text = The Bull told the King’s daughter that on no account was she to touch it, for there was a Troll with nine heads who was the owner, and that he was much larger and stronger than both the others put together, and that he did not believe that he could overcome him.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	iobj	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
11	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	touch	touch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl:relcl	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	20	expl	_	_
20	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Troll	troll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
26	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	owner	owner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
35	much	much	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	conj	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	36	conj	_	_
39	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
40	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc:preconj	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nsubj	_	_
43	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	advcl	_	_
44	together	together	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
47	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
48	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
49	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
50	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	51	advmod	_	_
51	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
52	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	55	mark	_	_
53	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
54	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	55	aux	_	_
55	overcome	overcome	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	ccomp	_	_
56	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the Bull |  | the King's daughter |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | past | daughter |  |  | no account |  | touch *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** | past | a Troll with nine heads |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | past | nine heads | the owner |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | past | bull |  |  |  |  | large *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | bull *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **put together** | past | the others |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **not** **believe** | past · do-support | bull |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 9 | **overcome** | could | bull | Troll |  |  |  |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=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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