The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 57

The squire was also on foot, for he was curious to see how the new man would behave who was both to eat and work for twelve.

Who acts: squire, new man · What happens: be, see, behave, work · To what, where: foot · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (squire, new man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 squire	det
2	squire	squire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 foot	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 foot	cop
4	also	also	ADV	_	6 foot	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 foot	case
6	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 curious	punct
8	for	for	ADP	_	11 curious	case
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 curious	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 curious	cop
11	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 foot	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 see	mark
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 curious	advcl
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	19 behave	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 man	det
16	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 man	amod
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 behave	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 behave	aux
19	behave	behave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 see	ccomp
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 eat	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 eat	cop
22	both	both	ADV	_	24 eat	advmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 eat	mark
24	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 behave	parataxis
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 work	cc
26	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 eat	conj
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 twelve	case
28	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 work	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 foot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the squire	foot		tree rules
2	is	past	squire		curious property	tree rules
3	see	to-infinitive	squire not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	behave	would	the new man			vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent
5	is	past			both, eat property	tree rules
6	work	infinitive			for twelve	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for twelve=Beneficiary

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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