--- title: The sun shone on the dark-green orange leaves; the fountains played… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics description: 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. 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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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2781:13:128 # text = 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! 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 3 shone shine VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 6 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 orange orange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 fountains fountain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 played play VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 among among ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 17 pink pink ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 18 Egyptian Egyptian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 lilies lily NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 24 on on SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 25 singing sing VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 Butterfly Butterfly PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ’s 's PART POS _ 29 case _ _ 31 Wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 lay lie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ _ 33 on on ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 under under ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 38 camphor camphor NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 39 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 41 waggling waggle VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 32 advcl _ _ 42 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obj _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 panting panting NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 47 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 53 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 53 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 50 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 53 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 51 ’ll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 53 aux _ _ 52 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 53 cop _ _ 53 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 54 ! ! PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 127](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/13/127/) - next →: [sentence 129](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/13/129/) - ↑ back to [The Butterfly That Stamped](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/13/)