English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, sentence 77

And first the harper sang to his old harp, making them joy and be glad or sorrow and weep just as he liked.

Who acts: harper · What happens: sing, make, be, sorrow, weep, like · To what, where: old harp, bones

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack Hannaford. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (harper), 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	_	5 sang	cc
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 sang	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 harper	det
4	harper	harper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sang	nsubj
5	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 harp	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 harp	nmod:poss
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 harp	amod
9	harp	harp	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sang	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 making	punct
11	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 sang	advcl
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 making	obj
13	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 making	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 glad	cc
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 glad	cop
16	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 making	conj
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 sorrow	cc
18	sorrow	sorrow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 glad	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 weep	cc
20	weep	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 sorrow	conj
21	just	just	ADV	_	24 liked	advmod
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 liked	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 liked	nsubj
24	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 weep	ccomp
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	the harper		harper's old harp	first property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to harp=Recipient
2	make	gerund	the harper not said here	bones = bone			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset they=Beneficiary joy=Product
3	is	infinitive	the harper not said here			glad property	tree rules
4	sorrow	present	the harper not said here				vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	weep	present	the harper not said here				tree rules
6	like	past	harper				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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