Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Happy Family, sentence 56

And the rain fell upon the burdock-leaves, to play the drum for them, and the sun shone to paint colors on the burdock forest for them, and they were very happy; the whole family were entirely and perfectly happy.

Who acts: rain, sun, whole family · What happens: fall, play, shine, paint, be · To what, where: burdock leaves, drum, colors, burdock forest

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» 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, sun, 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	_	4 fell	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rain	det
3	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	nsubj
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 leaves	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 leaves	det
7	burdock	burdock	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 leaves	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 burdock	punct
9	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fell	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 play	punct
11	to	to	PART	_	12 play	mark
12	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fell	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 drum	det
14	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 play	obj
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 play	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 shone	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 shone	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sun	det
20	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 shone	nsubj
21	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fell	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 paint	mark
23	paint	paint	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 shone	xcomp
24	colors	color	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 paint	obj
25	on	on	ADP	_	28 forest	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 forest	det
27	burdock	burdock	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 forest	compound
28	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 paint	obl
29	for	for	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 forest	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 happy	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 happy	cc
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 happy	nsubj
34	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 happy	cop
35	very	very	ADV	_	36 happy	advmod
36	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fell	parataxis
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 happy	punct
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 family	det
39	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 family	amod
40	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 happy	nsubj
41	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 happy	cop
42	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	45 happy	advmod
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 happy	cc
44	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	45 happy	advmod
45	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fell	conj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fall	past	the rain		the burdock leaves		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon leaf=Location
2	play	to-infinitive	the rain not said here	the drum		for rain	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent drum=Theme for they=Eventuality
3	shine	past	the sun				tree rules
4	paint	to-infinitive	the sun not said here	colors	the burdock forest for rain		vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent color=Theme on forest=Destination
5	is	past	rain			happy property	tree rules
6	is	past	the whole family			entirely, happy, perfectly 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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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