More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 87

All went well for a bit, till one day, she thought she would bake white bread for a treat for Jan. So she carried her meal to the top of a high hill, and let the wind blow on it, for she thought to herself that the wind would blow out all the bran.

Who acts: mother, wind · What happens: go, think, bake, carry, let, blow · To what, where: white bread, meal, top, bread, mother, bran · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, 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 (mother, wind), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 went	advmod
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 went	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 bit	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bit	det
6	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 day	punct
8	till	till	ADP	_	10 day	case
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 day	nummod
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 thought	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 thought	nsubj
13	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 bake	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 bake	aux
16	bake	bake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 thought	ccomp
17	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 bread	amod
18	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bake	obj
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 treat	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 treat	det
21	treat	treat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bake	obl
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 Jan.	case
23	Jan.	January	PROPN	Abbr=Yes Number=Sing	21 treat	nmod
24	So	so	ADV	_	26 carried	advmod
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 carried	nsubj
26	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 bake	advcl
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 meal	nmod:poss
28	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 carried	obj
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 top	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 top	det
31	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 carried	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	35 hill	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 hill	det
34	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 hill	amod
35	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 top	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 let	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 let	cc
38	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 bake	conj
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 wind	det
40	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 blow	nsubj
41	blow	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 let	xcomp
42	on	on	ADP	_	43 it	case
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 blow	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 thought	punct
45	for	for	SCONJ	_	47 thought	mark
46	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 thought	nsubj
47	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 blow	advcl
48	to	to	ADP	_	49 herself	case
49	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	47 thought	obl
50	that	that	SCONJ	_	54 blow	mark
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 wind	det
52	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 blow	nsubj
53	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	54 blow	aux
54	blow	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 thought	ccomp
55	out	out	ADP	_	54 blow	compound:prt
56	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	58 bran	det:predet
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 bran	det
58	bran	bran	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 blow	obj
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past					day	for a bit; well property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for bit=Beneficiary
2	think speech: other	past	mother						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	bake	would	mother	white bread				for a treat for Jan.	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent bread=Material for treat=Beneficiary
4	carry	past	mother	mother's meal		the top of a high hill			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent meal=Theme to top=Destination
5	let	infinitive	mother not said here						tree rules
6	blow	infinitive	the wind			bread			vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
7	think speech: other	past	mother		mother				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
8	blow out	would	the wind	all bran					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent bran=Patient

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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