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title: Then he heard that his clerks in distant countries, whom he trusted… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, with its dependency tree and
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 6

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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.

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

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg503:14:6
# text = 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.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	clerks	clerk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	obj	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	trusted	trust	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
14	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	proved	prove	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	_
18	unfaithful	unfaithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	obl	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
28	into	into	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	direst	dire	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	31	amod	_	_
31	poverty	poverty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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 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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