The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 61

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

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.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 come	nsubj
2	Eve	Eve	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Christmas	flat
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 gathered	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 gathered	cc
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 men	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 men	det
9	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 gathered	nsubj
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 worked	nsubj
11	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 men	acl:relcl
12	under	under	ADP	_	13 Marzinne	case
13	Marzinne	Marzinne	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 worked	obl
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 farms	cc
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 farms	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 farms	det
17	farms	farm	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 Marzinne	conj
18	round	round	ADV	_	11 worked	advmod
19	about	about	ADP	_	11 worked	obl
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 gathered	aux:pass
21	gathered	gather	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 come	conj
22	in	in	ADP	_	25 kitchen	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 kitchen	det
24	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 kitchen	amod
25	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gathered	obl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 eat	mark
27	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 gathered	advcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 soup	det
29	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 eat	obj
30	flavoured	flavour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 soup	acl
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 honey	case
32	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 flavoured	obl
33	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 honey	acl
34	by	by	ADP	_	36 puddings	case
35	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 puddings	amod
36	puddings	pudding	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 followed	obl:agent
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 invited	punct
38	to	to	ADP	_	39 which	case
39	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 invited	obl
40	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 invited	nsubj:pass
41	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 invited	aux:pass
42	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	43 invited	advmod
43	invited	invite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 soup	acl
44	on	on	ADP	_	47 night	case
45	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	47 night	det
46	particular	particular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 night	amod
47	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 invited	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, 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

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.

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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