--- title: And the rain fell upon the burdock-leaves, to play the drum for them… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: 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. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Anders --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/48/56/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Happy Family](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/48/) / 56 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:48:56 # text = 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. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 upon upon ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 burdock burdock NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 play play VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 drum drum NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 shone shine VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 paint paint VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 24 colors color NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 25 on on ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 burdock burdock NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 29 for for ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 33 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 34 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 35 very very ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ; ; PUNCT : _ 45 punct _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 41 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 42 entirely entirely ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 44 perfectly perfectly ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 45 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/48/55/) - next →: [A Leaf From Heaven, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/49/1/) - ↑ back to [The Happy Family](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/48/)