Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 36

The water closed over their heads, but they came up again in an instant, and swam about quite prettily with their legs paddling under them as easily as possible, and the ugly duckling was also in the water swimming with them.

Who acts: water, legs, ugly duckling · What happens: close, come up, swim, paddle, be · To what, where: water, heads, instant

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 (water, legs, ugly duckling), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 water	det
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	nsubj
3	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 water	acl
4	over	over	ADP	_	6 heads	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 heads	nmod:poss
6	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 closed	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 came	cc
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	up	up	ADV	_	10 came	advmod
12	again	again	ADV	_	10 came	advmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 instant	case
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 instant	det
15	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 swam	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 swam	cc
18	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 came	conj
19	about	about	ADV	_	21 prettily	advmod
20	quite	quite	ADV	_	21 prettily	advmod
21	prettily	prettily	ADV	_	18 swam	advmod
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 legs	case
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 legs	nmod:poss
24	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 swam	obl
25	paddling	paddle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 legs	acl
26	under	under	ADP	_	27 them	case
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 paddling	obl
28	as	as	ADV	_	29 easily	advmod
29	easily	easily	ADV	_	25 paddling	advmod
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 possible	mark
31	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 easily	advcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 water	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 water	cc
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 duckling	det
35	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 duckling	amod
36	duckling	duckling	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 water	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 water	cop
38	also	also	ADV	_	41 water	advmod
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 water	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 water	det
41	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 swam	obl
42	swimming	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	41 water	acl
43	with	with	ADP	_	44 them	case
44	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 swimming	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	close	participle		the water not said here	Quack's heads			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	come up	past	the water		a instant	again		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in instant=Location
3	swim	past	the water not said here				with Quack's legs; prettily property	vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «PP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with leg=Theme
4	paddle	gerund	Quack's legs not said here				under Quack; easily property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	the ugly duckling		the water			tree rules
6	swim	gerund	the water not said here				with Quack	vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «PP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with 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.

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