Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 6

Two feathers which the fluttering ducks had lost floated up and down; suddenly they took a rush as if the wind were coming, but as it did not come they had to lie still, and the water once more became quiet and smooth.

Who acts: ducks, wind, water · What happens: float up, take, come, not come, have, lie · To what, where: Two feathers, rush

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, wind, water), 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	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 feathers	nummod
2	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 floated	nsubj:pass
3	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 floated	obj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ducks	det
5	fluttering	fluttering	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ducks	compound
6	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 floated	nsubj:pass
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 floated	aux
8	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 floated	aux:pass
9	floated	float	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 floated	compound:prt
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 down	cc
12	down	down	ADV	_	10 up	conj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 took	punct
14	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	16 took	advmod
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 took	nsubj
16	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 floated	parataxis
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 rush	det
18	rush	rush	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 took	obj
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 coming	mark
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 coming	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 wind	det
22	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 coming	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 coming	aux
24	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 took	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 come	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 come	cc
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 come	mark
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 come	nsubj
29	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 come	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 come	advmod
31	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 took	conj
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 had	nsubj
33	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 come	ccomp
34	to	to	PART	_	35 lie	mark
35	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 had	xcomp
36	still	still	ADV	_	35 lie	advmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 became	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 became	cc
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 water	det
40	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 became	nsubj
41	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	43 became	advmod
42	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	43 became	advmod
43	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 floated	conj
44	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 became	xcomp
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 smooth	cc
46	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 quiet	conj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 floated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	float up	past · perfect · passive		Two feathers			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: subject=Theme which=Result
2	take	past	ducks = duck	a rush		suddenly property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rush=Theme
3	come	past · progressive	the wind				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not come	past · do-support	wind				tree rules
5	have	past	ducks = duck				tree rules
6	lie	to-infinitive	ducks = duck not said here		still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	become	past	the water			once, quiet property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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