The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 17

Presently the children found a little brook dancing and glittering over the stones, and brother was eager to drink of it, but as it rushed past sister heard it murmuring:

Who acts: children, little brook, brother, brook · What happens: find, dance, glitter, be, drink, rush · To what, where: little brook, stones

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, little brook, brother, brook), 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	Presently	presently	ADV	_	4 found	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 children	det
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 found	nsubj
4	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 murmuring	advcl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 brook	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 brook	amod
7	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	obj
8	dancing	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 brook	acl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 glittering	cc
10	glittering	glitter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 dancing	conj
11	over	over	ADP	_	13 stones	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 stones	det
13	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 glittering	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 eager	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 eager	cc
16	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 eager	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 eager	cop
18	eager	eager	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 found	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 drink	mark
20	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 eager	xcomp
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 drink	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 heard	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 heard	cc
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 rushed	mark
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 rushed	nsubj
27	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 heard	advcl
28	past	past	ADP	_	29 sister	case
29	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 rushed	obl
30	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 murmuring	aux
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 heard	obj
32	murmuring	murmur	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
33	:	:	PUNCT	_	32 murmuring	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	past	the children	a little brook		presently property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brook=Topic
2	dance	gerund	a little brook not said here				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	glitter	gerund	a little brook not said here		the stones		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over stone=Location
4	is	past	brother			eager property	tree rules
5	drink	to-infinitive	brother not said here			of brook	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of it=Source
6	rush	past	brook			past sister	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past sister=Trajectory
7	murmur speech: other	past					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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