Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 11

She laid her spinning aside, or her embroidery if she was at that, or if she were baking a cake of fine wheaten bread mixed with honey she would leave the cake to bake itself and fly to Iollan.

Who acts: Uct · What happens: lay, spin, be, bake, mix, leave · To what, where: embroidery, that, cake, fine wheaten bread, Iollan

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Uct), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 laid	nsubj
2	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 spinning	nmod:poss
4	spinning	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 laid	xcomp
5	aside	aside	ADV	_	4 spinning	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 embroidery	punct
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 embroidery	cc
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 embroidery	nmod:poss
9	embroidery	embroidery	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 laid	obl
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 that	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 that	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 that	cop
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 that	case
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 laid	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 baking	punct
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 baking	cc
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 baking	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 baking	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 baking	aux
20	baking	bake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 laid	advcl
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 cake	det
22	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 baking	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 bread	case
24	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 bread	amod
25	wheaten	wheaten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 bread	amod
26	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cake	nmod
27	mixed	mix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 bread	acl
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 honey	case
29	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 mixed	obl
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 leave	nsubj
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 leave	aux
32	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 mixed	parataxis
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 cake	det
34	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 leave	obj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 bake	mark
36	bake	bake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 leave	advcl
37	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	36 bake	obj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 fly	cc
39	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 bake	conj
40	to	to	ADP	_	41 Iollan	case
41	Iollan	Iollan	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 fly	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	lay	past	Uct	Uct's embroidery				tree rules
2	spin	gerund	Uct not said here				aside property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	is a condition, not said to happen	past	Uct			that		tree rules
4	bake a condition, not said to happen	past · progressive	Uct	a cake of fine wheaten bread				vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Product
5	mix	participle		fine wheaten bread not said here			with honey	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with honey=Co-Patient
6	leave	would	Uct	the cake				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Theme
7	bake	to-infinitive	Uct not said here	cake				vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Product
8	fly	infinitive	Uct not said here		Iollan			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to iollan=Result
9	embroider		Uct					nom embroidery «communication transitive»: 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: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (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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