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title: The water ran down from her hair and clothes; it ran down into the t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The water ran down from her hair and clothes; it ran down into the toes of her shoes and out again at the heels. Who acts: water, sight. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Princess and the Pea, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Princess and the Pea, sentence 10

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The water ran down from her hair and clothes; it ran down into the toes of her shoes and out again at the heels.

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**Who acts:** water, sight · **What happens:** run down · **To what, where:** hair, toes

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Princess and the Pea. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water, sight), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg27200:150:10
# text = The water ran down from her hair and clothes; it ran down into the toes of her shoes and out again at the heels.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	down	down	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	toes	toe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	out	out	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	again	again	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	heels	heel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run down** | past | the water |  |  | water's hair and clothes |  | down *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from hair=Trajectory |
| 2 | **run down** | past | sight |  |  |  |  | into the toes of water's shoes and the heels *result*; down *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into toe=Result |

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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.

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**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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