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title: Directly the chariot drew within sight of the castle the beautiful b… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, with its dependency tr
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 52

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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.

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

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg640:12:52
# text = 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.
1	Directly	directly	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	chariot	chariot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
5	within	within	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
19	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	dying	die	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	amod	_	_
23	King	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	27	obl	_	_
27	cured	cure	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	sickness	sickness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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 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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