Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 128

The sun shone on the dark-green orange leaves; the fountains played among the pink Egyptian lilies; the birds went on singing, and the Butterfly’s Wife lay on her side under the camphor-tree waggling her wings and panting, ‘Oh, I’ll be good!

Who acts: sun, birds, Wife, I · What happens: shine, play, go, sing, lie, waggle · To what, where: sun, green orange leaves, side, wings

This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Butterfly That Stamped. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, birds, Wife, I), 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 sun	det
2	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 played	nsubj
3	shone	shine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 sun	acl
4	on	on	ADP	_	10 leaves	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 leaves	det
6	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 green	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 dark	punct
8	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 leaves	amod
9	orange	orange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 leaves	amod
10	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shone	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 played	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fountains	det
13	fountains	fountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 played	nsubj
14	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	among	among	ADP	_	19 lilies	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 lilies	det
17	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 lilies	amod
18	Egyptian	Egyptian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 lilies	amod
19	lilies	lily	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 played	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 went	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 birds	det
22	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 went	nsubj
23	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 played	conj
24	on	on	SCONJ	_	25 singing	mark
25	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 went	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 lay	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 lay	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Butterfly	det
29	Butterfly	Butterfly	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Wife	nmod:poss
30	’s	's	PART	_	29 Butterfly	case
31	Wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lay	nsubj
32	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 played	parataxis
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 side	case
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 side	nmod:poss
35	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lay	obl
36	under	under	ADP	_	40 tree	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 tree	det
38	camphor	camphor	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 tree	compound
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 camphor	punct
40	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lay	obl
41	waggling	waggle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 lay	advcl
42	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 wings	nmod:poss
43	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 waggling	obj
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 panting	cc
45	panting	panting	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 wings	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 good	punct
47	‘	'	PUNCT	_	53 good	punct
48	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	53 good	discourse
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 Oh	punct
50	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	53 good	nsubj
51	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 good	aux
52	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	53 good	cop
53	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 lay	conj
54	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 played	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shine	participle		the sun not said here	the green orange leaves		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leaf=Location
2	play	past	the sun			among the pink Egyptian lilies	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go	past	the birds				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	sing speech: express	gerund	the birds not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	lie	past	the Butterfly's Wife		sun's side	under the camphor tree	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location
6	waggle	gerund	the Butterfly's Wife not said here	sun's wings and panting			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient
7	is	future	I			good property	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: «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 2781 (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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