The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 28
As for you, old man,” he added, turning to the merchant, “at sunrise to-morrow you will take your departure.
Who acts: man, you, your · What happens: add, turn, take, depart · To what, where: merchant, departure · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, 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 (man, you, your), 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:pg503:1224): 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 3 you | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 take | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 man | punct |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 take | vocative |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 man | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 take | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 added | nsubj |
| 10 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 take | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 turning | punct |
| 12 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 added | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 merchant | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 merchant | det |
| 15 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 turning | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 added | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 take | punct |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 sunrise | case |
| 19 | sunrise | sunrise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 take | obl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 morrow | case |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 to | punct |
| 22 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sunrise | nmod |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 take | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 take | aux |
| 25 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 26 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 departure | nmod:poss |
| 27 | departure | departure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 take | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert in a quote | past | man | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | turn in a quote | gerund | man not said here | the merchant | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to merchant=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | take | future | you | your departure | sunrise | as you; old man vocative | tree rules | ||
| 4 | depart | your | nom departure «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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