The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 12

His only work would be to dust my old books.’

Who acts: only work, boy · What happens: be, work

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (only work, boy), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 work	nmod:poss
2	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 work	amod
3	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dust	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 dust	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 dust	cop
6	to	to	PART	_	7 dust	mark
7	dust	dust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 books	nmod:poss
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 books	amod
10	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 dust	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 dust	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 dust	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	boy's only work					dust property	tree rules
2	work		boy						nom work «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 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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