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title: For some time they rested under the shade of the trees, regaling the… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield 
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 81

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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.

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

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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.

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg65965:26:82
# text = 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.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	rested	rest	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	under	under	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	shade	shade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	regaling	regale	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
14	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	freshly	freshly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	picked	pick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
20	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	drinking	drinking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	springs	spring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	bubbled	bubble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	sparkled	sparkle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	conj	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	like	like	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	fountains	fountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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 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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