Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 108

"But it is so delightful to swim about on the water," said the duckling, "and so refreshing to feel it close over your head, while you dive down to the bottom."

Who acts: it, duckling, you · What happens: be, swim, say, refresh, feel, dive down · To what, where: water, egg, bottom · 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 (it, duckling, you), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 delightful	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 delightful	cc
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 delightful	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 delightful	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 delightful	advmod
6	delightful	delightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 swim	mark
8	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 delightful	xcomp
9	about	about	ADV	_	8 swim	advmod
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 water	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 water	det
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 swim	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 delightful	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 delightful	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 delightful	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 duckling	det
17	duckling	duckling	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 duckling	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 duckling	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 refreshing	cc
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 refreshing	advmod
22	refreshing	refresh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 delightful	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 feel	mark
24	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 refreshing	xcomp
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 feel	obj
26	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 feel	advmod
27	over	over	ADP	_	29 head	case
28	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 head	nmod:poss
29	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 close	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 dive	punct
31	while	while	SCONJ	_	33 dive	mark
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 dive	nsubj
33	dive	dive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 delightful	conj
34	down	down	ADV	_	33 dive	advmod
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 bottom	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 bottom	det
37	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 dive	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 delightful	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 delightful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	it			delightful property	tree rules
2	swim in a quote	to-infinitive			the water	about property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on water=Trajectory
3	say speech: assert	past	the duckling				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	refresh in a quote	gerund					tree rules
5	feel in a quote	to-infinitive		egg		close property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	dive down in a quote	present	you		the bottom	down property	vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to bottom=Location

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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