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title: As for you, old man,” he added, turning to the merchant, “at sunrise… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 28

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As for you, old man,” he added, turning to the merchant, “at sunrise to-morrow you will take your departure.

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**Who acts:** man, you, your · **What happens:** add, turn, take, depart · **To what, where:** merchant, departure · **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 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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg503:15:28
# text = As for you, old man,” he added, turning to the merchant, “at sunrise to-morrow you will take your departure.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	3	case	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	vocative	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	added	add	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	parataxis	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	_
22	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
26	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	departure	departure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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