Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 2

All the ducks lying quietly on the water or standing on their heads in it--for they could do that--at once swarm to the sides; the traces of their feet were seen in the wet earth, and their cackling was heard far and wide.

Who acts: ducks · What happens: lie, stand, do, swarm, see, hear · To what, where: water, heads, that, traces, wet earth, cackling

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ducks), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 ducks	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ducks	det
3	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lying	nsubj
4	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	4 lying	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 water	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 water	det
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lying	obl
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 standing	cc
10	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 lying	conj
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 heads	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 heads	nmod:poss
13	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 standing	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 standing	obl
16	--	--	PUNCT	_	20 do	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 do	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 do	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 do	aux
20	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 lying	conj
21	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 do	obj
22	--	--	PUNCT	_	25 swarm	punct
23	at	at	ADP	_	25 swarm	case
24	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	25 swarm	advmod
25	swarm	swarm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 do	conj
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 sides	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 sides	det
28	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 swarm	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 seen	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 traces	det
31	traces	trace	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 seen	nsubj:pass
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 feet	case
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 feet	nmod:poss
34	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 traces	nmod
35	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 seen	aux:pass
36	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 do	advcl
37	in	in	ADP	_	40 earth	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 earth	det
39	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 earth	amod
40	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 seen	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 heard	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 heard	cc
43	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 cackling	nmod:poss
44	cackling	cackling	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 heard	nsubj
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 heard	aux:pass
46	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 seen	conj
47	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	46 heard	advmod
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 wide	cc
49	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 far	conj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	gerund	all ducks		the water	quietly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on water=Location
2	stand	gerund	all ducks not said here		ducks's heads	in water	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on head=Location
3	do	could	ducks = duck	that			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality
4	swarm	infinitive	ducks = duck not said here			to the sides; once property	vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme
5	see	past · passive		the traces of traces's feet	the wet earth		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
6	hear	past · passive		traces's cackling		far property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus

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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