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title: "All its streaming waters are not able to wash out the innocent bloo… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "All its streaming waters are not able to wash out the innocent blood that was spilt here." Who acts: streaming waters. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 139

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"All its streaming waters are not able to wash out the innocent blood that was spilt here."

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**Who acts:** streaming waters · **What happens:** not be, wash out, spilt · **To what, where:** innocent blood

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (streaming waters), 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:pg27200:25:139
# text = "All its streaming waters are not able to wash out the innocent blood that was spilt here."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
3	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	streaming	streaming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	wash	wash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	innocent	innocent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	spilt	spilt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | flight's streaming waters |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **wash out** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | flight's streaming waters *not said here* | the innocent blood |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Patient |
| 3 | **spilt** *in a quote* | past · passive |  | the innocent blood |  | here |  |  | tree rules |

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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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