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title: And when Christmas came again, and brought the dish of jam and the g… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And when Christmas came again, and brought the dish of jam and the great lump of butter, he liked the huckster best of all. Who acts: Christmas. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster, sentence 42

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And when Christmas came again, and brought the dish of jam and the great lump of butter, he liked the huckster best of all.

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**Who acts:** Christmas · **What happens:** come, bring, like · **To what, where:** dish, huckster

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Christmas), 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:pg27200:38:42
# text = And when Christmas came again, and brought the dish of jam and the great lump of butter, he liked the huckster best of all.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
5	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	jam	jam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	lump	lump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	liked	like	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	huckster	huckster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	best	well	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	21	advmod	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Christmas |  |  |  | again |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bring** | past |  | the dish of jam and the great lump of butter |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent dish=Theme |
| 3 | **like** | past | Christmas | the huckster |  |  |  | well *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot huckster=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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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