The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 81

For some time they rested under the shade of the trees, regaling themselves with the freshly-picked fruit and drinking from springs that bubbled and sparkled from the ground like fountains.

Who acts: summons, springs · What happens: rest, regale, pick, bubble, sparkle, shade · To what, where: shade, summons, ground, trees

This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (summons, springs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	For	for	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rested	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 rested	nsubj
5	rested	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	under	under	ADP	_	8 shade	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 shade	det
8	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rested	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 trees	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 trees	det
11	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 shade	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 regaling	punct
13	regaling	regale	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 rested	advcl
14	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 regaling	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	20 fruit	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 fruit	det
17	freshly	freshly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 picked	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 freshly	punct
19	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 fruit	amod
20	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 regaling	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 drinking	cc
22	drinking	drinking	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fruit	conj
23	from	from	ADP	_	24 springs	case
24	springs	spring	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 regaling	obl
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 bubbled	nsubj
26	bubbled	bubble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 springs	acl:relcl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 sparkled	cc
28	sparkled	sparkle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 bubbled	conj
29	from	from	ADP	_	31 ground	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 ground	det
31	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sparkled	obl
32	like	like	ADP	_	33 fountains	case
33	fountains	fountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 sparkled	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 rested	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rest	past	summons = summon		the shade of the trees	time		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under shade=Location
2	regale	gerund	summons = summon not said here	summons = summon		spring	with the picked fruit and drinking	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent themselves=Recipient with fruit=Theme
3	pick	participle						vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	bubble	past	springs					vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
5	sparkle	participle	springs not said here		the ground		like fountains	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	shade			the trees				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 Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 81

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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 81