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title: The squire was also on foot, for he was curious to see how the new m… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 57

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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.

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

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg5615:12:57
# text = 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.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	squire	squire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	also	also	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
14	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	behave	behave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	both	both	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	parataxis	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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 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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