Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 113

You can lie out on a leafy branch and look like sunshine sifting through the leaves; and you can lie right across the centre of a path and look like nothing in particular.

Who acts: You, sunshine · What happens: lie out, look, sift, lie · To what, where: leafy branch, leaves, centre

This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the Leopard Got His Spots. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, sunshine), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 lie	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lie	aux
3	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 lie	compound:prt
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 branch	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 branch	det
7	leafy	leafy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 branch	amod
8	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lie	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 look	cc
10	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 lie	conj
11	like	like	ADP	_	12 sunshine	case
12	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 look	obl
13	sifting	sift	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 sunshine	acl
14	through	through	ADP	_	16 leaves	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 leaves	det
16	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 sifting	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 lie	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 lie	cc
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 lie	nsubj
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 lie	aux
21	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lie	parataxis
22	right	right	ADV	_	21 lie	advmod
23	across	across	ADP	_	25 centre	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 centre	det
25	centre	centre	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lie	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 path	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 path	det
28	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 centre	nmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 look	cc
30	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	21 lie	conj
31	like	like	ADP	_	32 nothing	case
32	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	30 look	obl
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 particular	case
34	particular	particular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 nothing	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lie	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	lie out	can	You	a leafy branch		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on branch=Location
2	look	infinitive	You not said here		like sunshine	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	sift	gerund	sunshine not said here	the leaves		vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through leaf=Location
4	lie	can	you	the centre of a path	right property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	look	infinitive	you not said here		like nothing	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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