The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 35

I have been resting in the shade in a place where there is sweet grass when I am hungry, and fresh water when I am thirsty, and a soft breeze to fan me in the heat.

Who acts: I, sweet grass · What happens: rest, be, fan · To what, where: shade, me, heat

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 (I, sweet grass), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 resting	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 resting	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	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	in	in	ADP	_	10 place	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 place	det
10	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 resting	obl
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 is	advmod
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 is	expl
13	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 place	acl:relcl
14	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 grass	amod
15	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 is	nsubj
16	when	when	SCONJ	_	19 hungry	mark
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 hungry	nsubj
18	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 hungry	cop
19	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 resting	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 water	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 water	cc
22	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 water	amod
23	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hungry	obl
24	when	when	SCONJ	_	27 thirsty	mark
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 thirsty	nsubj
26	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 thirsty	cop
27	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 water	acl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 breeze	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 breeze	cc
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 breeze	det
31	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 breeze	amod
32	breeze	breeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 resting	parataxis
33	to	to	PART	_	34 fan	mark
34	fan	fan	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 breeze	acl
35	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 fan	obj
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 heat	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 heat	det
38	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 fan	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 resting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rest	present · perfect · progressive	I		the shade	in a place	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in shade=Location
2	be	present	sweet grass		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	I			fresh water obl; hungry property	tree rules
4	is	present	I			thirsty property	tree rules
5	fan	to-infinitive	I not said here	me	the heat		tree rules

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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