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title: Towards Christmas-time quite little trees were cut down, some not as… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Towards Christmas-time quite little trees were cut down, some not as big as the young fir-tree, or just the same age, and now it had no peace or rest for longing to be away. Who acts: dew, peace. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, with its dependency tr
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 24

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Towards Christmas-time quite little trees were cut down, some not as big as the young fir-tree, or just the same age, and now it had no peace or rest for longing to be away.

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**Who acts:** dew, peace · **What happens:** cut down, have, long, be · **To what, where:** time little trees, peace

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dew, peace), 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:pg5615:11:24
# text = Towards Christmas-time quite little trees were cut down, some not as big as the young fir-tree, or just the same age, and now it had no peace or rest for longing to be away.
1	Towards	Towards	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
5	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	down	down	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	nsubj	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
14	as	as	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	fir	fir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	just	just	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
33	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	34	det	_	_
34	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
37	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
38	longing	long	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	acl	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
40	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	cop	_	_
41	away	away	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut down** | past · passive |  | time little trees |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **have** | past | dew | no peace or rest |  |  | now |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Patient |
| 3 | **long** | gerund | no peace or rest *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | away *property* | tree rules |

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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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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