--- title: The water closed over their heads, but they came up again in an inst… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: 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. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans C --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/201/36/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Ugly Duckling](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/201/) / 36 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:201:36 # text = 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. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 3 closed close VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 4 over over ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 but but CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 up up ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 again again ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 instant instant NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 swam swim VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 19 about about ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 20 quite quite ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 prettily prettily ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 25 paddling paddle VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 acl _ _ 26 under under ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obl _ _ 28 as as ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 easily easily ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 30 as as SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 31 possible possible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 ugly ugly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 duckling duckling NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 37 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 38 also also ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 42 swimming swim VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 41 acl _ _ 43 with with ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to 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. - ← previous: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/201/35/) - next →: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/201/37/) - ↑ back to [The Ugly Duckling](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/201/)