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title: All went well for a bit, till one day, she thought she would bake wh… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «More English
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 87

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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.

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**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

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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.

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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:pg14241:15:87
# text = 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.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	advmod	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	till	till	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	bake	bake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
17	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	treat	treat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Jan.	January	PROPN	NNP	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	So	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
41	blow	blow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	xcomp	_	_
42	on	on	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
46	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	advcl	_	_
48	to	to	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	47	obl	_	_
50	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	54	mark	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nsubj	_	_
53	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
54	blow	blow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	ccomp	_	_
55	out	out	ADP	RP	_	54	compound:prt	_	_
56	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	58	det:predet	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	bran	bran	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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:** «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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