The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 175

They rode all day, and when the sun sank behind the hills they rested, and ate of the food the gazelle gave them, and lay down to sleep.

Who acts: horse, sun, gazelle · What happens: ride, sink, rest, eat, give, lay down · To what, where: hills, food, horse

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse, sun, gazelle), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rode	nsubj
2	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 day	det
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rode	obl:unmarked
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sank	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sank	cc
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 sank	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sun	det
9	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sank	nsubj
10	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rode	conj
11	behind	behind	ADP	_	13 hills	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hills	det
13	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sank	obl
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 rested	nsubj
15	rested	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 hills	acl:relcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 ate	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 ate	cc
18	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rode	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 food	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 food	det
21	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ate	obl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 gazelle	det
23	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 gave	nsubj
24	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 food	acl:relcl
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 gave	iobj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 lay	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 lay	cc
28	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 rode	parataxis
29	down	down	ADV	_	28 lay	advmod
30	to	to	PART	_	31 sleep	mark
31	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 lay	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 rode	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	past	horse				day		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	sink	past	the sun			the hills			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	rest	past	horse	the hills not said here					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hill=Theme
4	eat	past	horse not said here					of the food	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of food=Source
5	give	past	the gazelle	the food not said here	horse				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
6	lay down	infinitive						down property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	sleep	to-infinitive							vn snooze-40.4-1 «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 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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