The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 3, sentence 39

The fugitives were resting in the shade of a wood, and were refreshing themselves with food and drink.

Who acts: fugitives · What happens: rest, refresh, shade · To what, where: shade, fugitives, wood

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fugitives), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fugitives	det
2	fugitives	fugitive	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 resting	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 resting	aux
4	resting	rest	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 shade	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shade	det
7	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 resting	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 wood	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 wood	det
10	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shade	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 refreshing	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 refreshing	cc
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 refreshing	aux
14	refreshing	refresh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 resting	conj
15	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 refreshing	obj
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 food	case
17	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 refreshing	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 drink	cc
19	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 food	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 resting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rest	past · progressive	the fugitives		the shade of a wood		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shade=Location
2	refresh	past · progressive	the fugitives not said here	fugitives = fugitive		with food and drink	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus themselves=Experiencer
3	shade			a wood			nom shade «state transitive»: of=patient

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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