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title: She ordered her carriage to be turned round and drove slowly back in… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She ordered her carriage to be turned round and drove slowly back into the town, never taking her eyes off Peter and his procession. Who acts: Princess, carriage, Peter. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Swan, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Magic Swan, sentence 57

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She ordered her carriage to be turned round and drove slowly back into the town, never taking her eyes off Peter and his procession.

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**Who acts:** Princess, carriage, Peter · **What happens:** order, turn round, drive, not take, proceed · **To what, where:** carriage, eyes, Peter

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Swan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, carriage, Peter), 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:pg7277:1903`): 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:pg7277:23:57
# text = She ordered her carriage to be turned round and drove slowly back into the town, never taking her eyes off Peter and his procession.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	xcomp	_	_
8	round	round	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	back	back	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	off	off	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	procession	procession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **order** | past | Princess | Princess's carriage |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent carriage=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **turn round** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | Princess's carriage *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V» |
| 3 | **drive** | past | Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **take** | gerund | Princess *not said here* | Princess's eyes |  | Peter and Peter's procession |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent eye=Theme off peter=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **proceed** |  | Peter |  |  |  |  |  | nom procession «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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