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title: Christmas Eve had come, and all the men who worked under Marzinne or… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Christmas Eve had come, and all the men who worked under Marzinne or on the farms round about were gathered in the large kitchen to eat the soup flavoured with honey followed by rich puddings, to which they were always invited on this particular night. Who acts: Christmas, men. A sentence of «The Li
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 61

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Christmas Eve had come, and all the men who worked under Marzinne or on the farms round about were gathered in the large kitchen to eat the soup flavoured with honey followed by rich puddings, to which they were always invited on this particular night.

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**Who acts:** Christmas, men · **What happens:** come, work, gather, eat, flavour, follow · **To what, where:** Marzinne, men, large kitchen, soup, honey

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Christmas, men), 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:pg3454:25:61
# text = Christmas Eve had come, and all the men who worked under Marzinne or on the farms round about were gathered in the large kitchen to eat the soup flavoured with honey followed by rich puddings, to which they were always invited on this particular night.
1	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Eve	Eve	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	under	under	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Marzinne	Marzinne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	farms	farm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
18	round	round	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
19	about	about	ADP	IN	_	11	obl	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	gathered	gather	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	flavoured	flavour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
33	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	acl	_	_
34	by	by	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	puddings	pudding	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	43	obl	_	_
40	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj:pass	_	_
41	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux:pass	_	_
42	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	43	advmod	_	_
43	invited	invite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl	_	_
44	on	on	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
45	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	47	det	_	_
46	particular	particular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past · perfect | Christmas |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **work** | past | all men |  |  | Marzinne or the farms |  | round *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **gather** | past · passive |  | all men |  | the large kitchen |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **eat** | to-infinitive |  | the soup |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soup=Patient |
| 5 | **flavour** | participle |  | the soup *not said here* |  |  |  | with honey | tree rules |
| 6 | **follow** | participle |  | honey *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **invite** | past · passive |  | Marzinne |  |  | night | to the soup; always *property* | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient |

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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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