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# The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 50

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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.

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**Who acts:** Fairy · **What happens:** prepare, harness, place, charge, conduct · **To what, where:** chariot, two powerful eagles, cage, bird, window

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg640:20:50
# text = 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.
1	Meantime	meantime	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	chariot	chariot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obl	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	harnessed	harness	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
13	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
14	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	eagles	eagle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
17	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
18	placing	place	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	cage	cage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	parrot	parrot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nmod	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	charged	charge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	conduct	conduct	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod:poss	_	_
41	’s	's	PART	POS	_	40	case	_	_
42	dressing	dressing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
43	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	44	punct	_	_
44	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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