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title: If she found the rye bread too hard to bake, or the oven taking too… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: If she found the rye bread too hard to bake, or the oven taking too long to heat, she just murmured, ‘I should like to see my six loaves on the shelf above the bread box,’ and two hours after there they were. Who acts: Barbaik, rye bread, oven, I. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang,
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 60

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If she found the rye bread too hard to bake, or the oven taking too long to heat, she just murmured, ‘I should like to see my six loaves on the shelf above the bread box,’ and two hours after there they were.

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**Who acts:** Barbaik, rye bread, oven, I, loaves · **What happens:** find, bake, take, heat, murmur, like · **To what, where:** rye bread, six loaves, shelf · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Barbaik, rye bread, oven, I), 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:pg3454:37:60
# text = If she found the rye bread too hard to bake, or the oven taking too long to heat, she just murmured, ‘I should like to see my six loaves on the shelf above the bread box,’ and two hours after there they were.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	rye	rye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	too	too	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	bake	bake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	oven	oven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
15	taking	take	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	too	too	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	heat	heat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	just	just	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	murmured	murmur	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	ccomp	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	loaves	loaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	shelf	shelf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
37	above	above	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
44	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	45	nummod	_	_
45	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
46	after	after	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	obl	_	_
48	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
49	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | Barbaik | the rye bread |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent bread=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **bake** | to-infinitive | the rye bread *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **take** | gerund | the oven *not said here* |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **heat** | to-infinitive | the oven *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **murmur** *speech: other* | past | the oven |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **like** | should | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 7 | **see** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | my six loaves |  | the shelf above the bread box |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer loaf=Stimulus |
| 8 | **be** | past | loaves *= loaf* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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