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title: Presently the children found a little brook dancing and glittering o… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister, with its
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# The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 17

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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:

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

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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.

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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:pg540:10:17
# text = 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:
1	Presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	brook	brook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	dancing	dance	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	glittering	glitter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	conj	_	_
11	over	over	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	eager	eager	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	_
28	past	past	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
30	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	murmuring	murmur	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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:** «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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