The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 82

When Christmas came, and with it the jam with the large lump of butter, ah! then the grocer was first with him.

Who acts: Christmas, grocer · What happens: come, be · To what, where: jam

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Christmas, grocer), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 jam	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 jam	cc
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 jam	obl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 jam	det
9	jam	jam	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 lump	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 lump	det
12	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 lump	amod
13	lump	lump	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 jam	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 butter	case
15	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lump	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
17	ah	ah	INTJ	_	25 him	discourse
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 ah	punct
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 him	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 grocer	det
21	grocer	grocer	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 him	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 him	cop
23	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	25 him	advmod
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	parataxis
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Christmas	the jam with the large lump of butter					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the grocer				then	with light; first property	tree rules

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 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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