Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 139
"All its streaming waters are not able to wash out the innocent blood that was spilt here."
Who acts: streaming waters · What happens: not be, wash out, spilt · To what, where: innocent blood
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.
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 | _ | 8 able | punct |
| 2 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 waters | det:predet |
| 3 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 waters | nmod:poss |
| 4 | streaming | streaming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 waters | compound |
| 5 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 able | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 able | cop |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 able | advmod |
| 8 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 wash | mark |
| 10 | wash | wash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 able | xcomp |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 wash | compound:prt |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 blood | det |
| 13 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 blood | amod |
| 14 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wash | obj |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 spilt | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 spilt | aux:pass |
| 17 | spilt | spilt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 blood | acl:relcl |
| 18 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 spilt | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 able | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | 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 |
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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