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title: She laid her spinning aside, or her embroidery if she was at that, o… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II, with its dependency tree a
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 11

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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.

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

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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.

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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:pg2892:29:11
# text = 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.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	spinning	spin	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
5	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	embroidery	embroidery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	baking	bake	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	wheaten	wheaten	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
27	mixed	mix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
30	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	parataxis	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	bake	bake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	advcl	_	_
37	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	36	obj	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	conj	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	Iollan	Iollan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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:** «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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