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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

advmoddetnsubjauxdetobjpunctcaseoblnsubjacl:relclnummodamodobjpunctadvmodadvcldetobjpunctcasedetoblcasenmodpunctnsubjparataxisdetobjmarkxcompobjcasedetoblcasedetnmod:posscasecompoundpunctnmodpunctrootMeantimeADVtheDETFairyNOUNhadAUXpreparedVERBaDETchariotNOUN,PUNCTtoADPwhichPRONshePRONharnessedVERBtwoNUMpowerfulADJeaglesNOUN;PUNCTthenADVplacingVERBtheDETcageNOUN,PUNCTwithADPtheDETparrotNOUNinADPitPRON,PUNCTshePRONchargedVERBtheDETbirdNOUNtoPARTconductVERBitPRONtoADPtheDETwindowNOUNofADPtheDETPrincessNOUN’sPARTdressingNOUN-PUNCTroomNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1MeantimemeantimeADV_5 preparedadvmod
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 Fairydet
3FairyfairyNOUNNumber=Sing5 preparednsubj
4hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 preparedaux
5preparedprepareVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Partrootroot
6aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art7 chariotdet
7chariotchariotNOUNNumber=Sing5 preparedobj
8,,PUNCT_12 harnessedpunct
9totoADP_10 whichcase
10whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel12 harnessedobl
11sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs12 harnessednsubj
12harnessedharnessVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 chariotacl:relcl
13twotwoNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card15 eaglesnummod
14powerfulpowerfulADJDegree=Pos15 eaglesamod
15eagleseagleNOUNNumber=Plur12 harnessedobj
16;;PUNCT_29 chargedpunct
17thenthenADVPronType=Dem18 placingadvmod
18placingplaceVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part29 chargedadvcl
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art20 cagedet
20cagecageNOUNNumber=Sing18 placingobj
21,,PUNCT_24 parrotpunct
22withwithADP_24 parrotcase
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 parrotdet
24parrotparrotNOUNNumber=Sing18 placingobl
25ininADP_26 itcase
26ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs24 parrotnmod
27,,PUNCT_18 placingpunct
28sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs29 chargednsubj
29chargedchargeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 preparedparataxis
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 birddet
31birdbirdNOUNNumber=Sing29 chargedobj
32totoPART_33 conductmark
33conductconductVERBVerbForm=Inf29 chargedxcomp
34ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs33 conductobj
35totoADP_37 windowcase
36thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art37 windowdet
37windowwindowNOUNNumber=Sing33 conductobl
38ofofADP_44 roomcase
39thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art40 Princessdet
40PrincessprincessNOUNNumber=Sing44 roomnmod:poss
41’s'sPART_40 Princesscase
42dressingdressingNOUNNumber=Sing44 roomcompound
43--PUNCT_44 roompunct
44roomroomNOUNNumber=Sing37 windownmod
45..PUNCT_5 preparedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1preparepast · perfectthe Fairya chariotmeantime propertyvn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chariot=Patient
2harnesspastFairytwo powerful eaglesto a chariotvn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent eagle=Patient to which=Co-Patient
3placegerundFairy not said herethe cagethenwith the parrot in cagevn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent cage=Theme
4chargepastFairythe birdtree rules
5conductto-infinitiveFairy not said herebirdthe window of the Princess's dressing roomvn 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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