Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 10

Quack, quack," said the mother, and then they all quacked as well as they could, and looked about them on every side at the large green leaves.

Who acts: Quack · What happens: say, quack, look · To what, where: mother, side · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Ugly Duckling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Quack), 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	Quack	quack	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 quack	punct
3	quack	quack	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Quack	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Quack	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Quack	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mother	det
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 quacked	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 quacked	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 quacked	advmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 quacked	nsubj
13	all	all	ADV	_	14 quacked	advmod
14	quacked	quack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
15	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	14 quacked	advmod
16	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 as	fixed
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 could	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 could	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 quacked	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 looked	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 looked	cc
22	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
23	about	about	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 looked	obl
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 side	case
26	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	27 side	det
27	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 looked	obl
28	at	at	ADP	_	32 leaves	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 leaves	det
30	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 leaves	amod
31	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 leaves	amod
32	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 looked	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Quack and quack	the mother				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mother=Topic
2	quack in a quote	past	Quack			then	all property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	look in a quote	past	Quack and quack not said here		every side		about Quack; at the large green leaves	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about they=Theme

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/201/10/