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title: So, making him mount her chariot, to which she had harnessed swans i… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So, making him mount her chariot, to which she had harnessed swans instead of the bats which generally drew it, away she flew with him. Who acts: Desert, Fairy. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 81

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So, making him mount her chariot, to which she had harnessed swans instead of the bats which generally drew it, away she flew with him.

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**Who acts:** Desert, Fairy · **What happens:** make, mount, harness, draw, fly · **To what, where:** Desert, chariot, Fairy, bats

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, 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 (Desert, Fairy), 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:pg503:6:81
# text = So, making him mount her chariot, to which she had harnessed swans instead of the bats which generally drew it, away she flew with him.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	mount	mount	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	chariot	chariot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obl	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	harnessed	harness	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
14	swans	swan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	18	case	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	bats	bat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obj	_	_
20	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	away	away	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | gerund |  | Desert |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mount** | infinitive | Desert *not said here* | Fairy's chariot |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chariot=Patient |
| 3 | **harness** | past · perfect · passive |  | Fairy |  |  |  | instead the bats | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient swan=Result |
| 4 | **draw** | past |  | the bats |  |  |  | generally *property* | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent which=Beneficiary it=Result |
| 5 | **fly** | past | Fairy |  |  |  |  | with Desert; away *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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