The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 52

Directly the chariot drew within sight of the castle the beautiful bird took flight, and, making straight for the dying King, at once cured him of his sickness.

Who acts: chariot, beautiful bird · What happens: draw, take, make, die, cure, sight · To what, where: flight, king, castle

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chariot, beautiful bird), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg640:822): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Directly	directly	SCONJ	_	4 drew	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 chariot	det
3	chariot	chariot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drew	nsubj
4	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 took	advcl
5	within	within	ADP	_	6 sight	case
6	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drew	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 castle	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 castle	det
9	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sight	nmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bird	det
11	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bird	amod
12	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	nsubj
13	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 cured	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 cured	cc
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 making	punct
18	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 cured	advcl
19	straight	straight	ADV	_	18 making	advmod
20	for	for	ADP	_	23 King	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 King	det
22	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 King	amod
23	King	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 making	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 making	punct
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 once	case
26	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	27 cured	obl
27	cured	cure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 took	conj
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 cured	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 sickness	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 sickness	nmod:poss
31	sickness	sickness	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cured	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	draw	past	the chariot		within sight of the castle	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	take	past	the beautiful bird	flight		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flight=Theme
3	make	gerund			for the dying King; straight property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for king=Beneficiary
4	die	gerund				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	cure	past	the beautiful bird not said here	king	of king's sickness	vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer he=Source of sickness=Theme
6	sight			the castle		nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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