Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family, sentence 59

And the rain beat on the dock-leaves to make drum-music for their sake, and the sun shone in order to give the burdock forest a color for their sakes; and they were very happy, and the whole family was happy; for they, indeed were so.

Who acts: rain beat, sun, noise, whole family · What happens: make, shine, give, be · To what, where: drum music, order, burdock forest

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rain beat, sun, noise, whole family), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	11 make	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 beat	det
3	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 beat	compound
4	beat	beat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 make	nsubj
5	on	on	ADP	_	9 leaves	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 leaves	det
7	dock	dock	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 leaves	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 dock	punct
9	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 beat	nmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 make	mark
11	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 music	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 drum	punct
14	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 make	obj
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 sake	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 sake	nmod:poss
17	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 make	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 shone	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 shone	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sun	det
21	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 shone	nsubj
22	shone	shine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 make	parataxis
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 order	case
24	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 shone	obl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 give	mark
26	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 shone	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 forest	det
28	burdock	burdock	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 forest	compound
29	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 give	obj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 color	det
31	color	color	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 give	obj
32	for	for	ADP	_	34 sakes	case
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 sakes	nmod:poss
34	sakes	sake	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 color	nmod
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 happy	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 happy	cc
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 happy	nsubj
38	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 happy	cop
39	very	very	ADV	_	40 happy	advmod
40	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 make	parataxis
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 happy	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 happy	cc
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 family	det
44	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 family	amod
45	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 happy	nsubj
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 happy	cop
47	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 happy	conj
48	;	;	PUNCT	_	53 were	punct
49	for	for	SCONJ	_	53 were	mark
50	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 were	nsubj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 they	punct
52	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	53 were	advmod
53	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 make	conj
54	so	so	ADV	_	53 were	advmod
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive	the rain beat on the dock leaves	drum music		for noise's sake	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent music=Product for sake=Asset
2	shine	participle	the sun		order		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in order=Location
3	give	to-infinitive	the sun not said here	the burdock forest			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent forest=Recipient color=Theme
4	is	past	noise			happy property	tree rules
5	is	past	the whole family			happy property	tree rules
6	be	past	noise			indeed property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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