The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 6

Then he heard that his clerks in distant countries, whom he trusted entirely, had proved unfaithful; and at last from great wealth he fell into the direst poverty.

Who acts: father, clerks · What happens: hear, trust, prove, fall · To what, where: clerks, last · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, clerks), 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:pg503:1128): 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 heard	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 heard	nsubj
3	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 proved	mark
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 clerks	nmod:poss
6	clerks	clerk	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 proved	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 countries	case
8	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 countries	amod
9	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 clerks	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 trusted	punct
11	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 trusted	obj
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 trusted	nsubj
13	trusted	trust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 clerks	acl:relcl
14	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	13 trusted	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 trusted	punct
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 proved	aux
17	proved	prove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 heard	ccomp
18	unfaithful	unfaithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 proved	xcomp
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 fell	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 fell	cc
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 last	case
22	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 fell	obl
23	from	from	ADP	_	25 wealth	case
24	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 wealth	amod
25	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fell	obl
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 fell	nsubj
27	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 heard	conj
28	into	into	ADP	_	31 poverty	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 poverty	det
30	direst	dire	ADJ	Degree=Sup	31 poverty	amod
31	poverty	poverty	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fell	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	father			then		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	trust	past	father	father's clerks in distant countries			entirely property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme
3	prove	past · perfect	father's clerks in distant countries				unfaithful property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	fall	past	father		last		from great wealth; into the direst poverty	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from wealth=Initial_Location into poverty=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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