The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins, sentence 9

A little way off was a small brook, rushing and sparkling along between green banks, and murmuring in a voice very grateful to a little girl who had lived so long on the dry, gray prairies.

Who acts: little way, small brook, little girl · What happens: be, rush, sparkle, murmur, live · To what, where: small brook, green banks, voice, dry gray prairies

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little way, small brook, little girl), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 way	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 way	amod
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 brook	nsubj
4	off	off	ADV	_	3 way	advmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 brook	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 brook	det
7	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 brook	amod
8	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 rushing	punct
10	rushing	rush	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 brook	acl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sparkling	cc
12	sparkling	sparkle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 rushing	conj
13	along	along	ADV	_	12 sparkling	advmod
14	between	between	ADP	_	16 banks	case
15	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 banks	amod
16	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sparkling	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 grateful	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 grateful	cc
19	murmuring	murmur	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 grateful	csubj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 voice	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 voice	det
22	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 murmuring	obl
23	very	very	ADV	_	24 grateful	advmod
24	grateful	grateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 brook	parataxis
25	to	to	ADP	_	28 girl	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 girl	det
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 girl	amod
28	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 grateful	obl
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 lived	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 lived	aux
31	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 girl	acl:relcl
32	so	so	ADV	_	33 long	advmod
33	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 lived	advmod
34	on	on	ADP	_	39 prairies	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 prairies	det
36	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 prairies	amod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 dry	punct
38	gray	gray	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 prairies	amod
39	prairies	prairie	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 lived	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 brook	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	a little way	a small brook			tree rules
2	rush	gerund	a small brook not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sparkle	gerund	a small brook not said here		green banks	along property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between bank=Location
4	murmur speech: other	gerund			a voice		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in voice=Location
5	live	past · perfect	a little girl		the dry gray prairies	long property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on prairie=Location

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 Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Project Gutenberg book 55 (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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