The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 27

And when they got to the third brook, sister heard it say as it rushed past:

Who acts: children, sister, brook · What happens: get, hear, say, rush · To what, where: brook · Speech: someone speaks here

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, sister, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	11 heard	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 got	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 heard	advcl
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 brook	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 brook	det
7	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 brook	amod
8	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
10	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 heard	nsubj
11	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 heard	obj
13	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 heard	xcomp
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 rushed	mark
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 rushed	nsubj
16	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 say	ccomp
17	past	past	ADV	_	16 rushed	advmod
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get	past	children = child		to the third brook result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to brook=Result
2	hear	past	sister	brook		tree rules
3	say speech: assert	infinitive	brook not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	rush	past	brook		past property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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