The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 50
Meantime the Fairy had prepared a chariot, to which she harnessed two powerful eagles; then placing the cage, with the parrot in it, she charged the bird to conduct it to the window of the Princess’s dressing-room.
Who acts: Fairy · What happens: prepare, harness, place, charge, conduct · To what, where: chariot, two powerful eagles, cage, bird, window
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fairy), 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:pg640:1375): 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 | Meantime | meantime | ADV | _ | 5 prepared | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Fairy | det |
| 3 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 prepared | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 prepared | aux |
| 5 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 chariot | det |
| 7 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 prepared | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 harnessed | punct |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 which | case |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 harnessed | obl |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 harnessed | nsubj |
| 12 | harnessed | harness | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 chariot | acl:relcl |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 eagles | nummod |
| 14 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 eagles | amod |
| 15 | eagles | eagle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 harnessed | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 charged | punct |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 placing | advmod |
| 18 | placing | place | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 charged | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 cage | det |
| 20 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 placing | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 parrot | punct |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 parrot | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 parrot | det |
| 24 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 placing | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 it | case |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 parrot | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 placing | punct |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 charged | nsubj |
| 29 | charged | charge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 prepared | parataxis |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 bird | det |
| 31 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 charged | obj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 conduct | mark |
| 33 | conduct | conduct | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 charged | xcomp |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 conduct | obj |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 window | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 window | det |
| 37 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 conduct | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 room | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Princess | det |
| 40 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 room | nmod:poss |
| 41 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 40 Princess | case |
| 42 | dressing | dressing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 room | compound |
| 43 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 44 room | punct |
| 44 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 window | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 prepared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prepare | past · perfect | the Fairy | a chariot | meantime property | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chariot=Patient | |||
| 2 | harness | past | Fairy | two powerful eagles | to a chariot | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent eagle=Patient to which=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | place | gerund | Fairy not said here | the cage | then | with the parrot in cage | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent cage=Theme | ||
| 4 | charge | past | Fairy | the bird | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | conduct | to-infinitive | Fairy not said here | bird | the window of the Princess's dressing room | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to window=Destination |
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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