The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter III, sentence 43

Besides, our histories of six thousand moons make no mention of any other regions than the two mighty empires of Lilliput and Blefuscu, which, as I was going to tell you, are engaged in a most obstinate war, which began in the following manner: It is allowed on all hands that the primitive way of breaking eggs was upon the larger end; but his present Majesty’s grandfather, while he was a boy, going to eat an egg, and breaking it according to the ancient practice, happened to cut one of his fingers.

Who acts: histories, two mighty empires, obstinate war, primitive way, majesty, boy · What happens: make, go, tell, engage, begin, follow · To what, where: mention, you, obstinate war, following manner, moon, hands · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (histories, two mighty empires, obstinate war, primitive way), 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	Besides	besides	INTJ	_	9 make	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Besides	punct
3	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 histories	nmod:poss
4	histories	history	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 make	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 moons	case
6	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 thousand	nummod
7	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 moons	nummod
8	moons	moon	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 histories	nmod
9	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 mention	det
11	mention	mention	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 make	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 regions	case
13	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	15 regions	det
14	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 regions	amod
15	regions	region	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 mention	nmod
16	than	than	ADP	_	20 empires	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 empires	det
18	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 empires	nummod
19	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 empires	amod
20	empires	empire	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 regions	nmod
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 Lilliput	case
22	Lilliput	Lilliput	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 empires	nmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 Blefuscu	cc
24	Blefuscu	Blefuscu	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Lilliput	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 going	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 going	nsubj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 going	punct
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 going	mark
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 going	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 going	aux
31	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 empires	appos
32	to	to	PART	_	33 tell	mark
33	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 going	xcomp
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 tell	iobj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 engaged	punct
36	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 engaged	aux:pass
37	engaged	engage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 make	conj
38	in	in	ADP	_	42 war	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 war	det
40	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	41 obstinate	advmod
41	obstinate	obstinate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 war	amod
42	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 engaged	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 began	punct
44	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 began	nsubj
45	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 war	acl:relcl
46	in	in	ADP	_	49 manner	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 manner	det
48	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	49 manner	amod
49	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 began	obl
50	:	:	PUNCT	_	53 allowed	punct
51	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 allowed	nsubj:pass
52	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	53 allowed	aux:pass
53	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 make	conj
54	on	on	ADP	_	56 hands	case
55	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	56 hands	det
56	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 allowed	obl
57	that	that	SCONJ	_	68 end	mark
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 way	det
59	primitive	primitive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 way	amod
60	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 end	nsubj
61	of	of	ADP	_	63 eggs	case
62	breaking	break	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	63 eggs	amod
63	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	60 way	nmod
64	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	68 end	cop
65	upon	upon	ADP	_	68 end	case
66	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	68 end	det
67	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	68 end	amod
68	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 allowed	advcl
69	;	;	PUNCT	_	75 grandfather	punct
70	but	but	CCONJ	_	75 grandfather	cc
71	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	73 Majesty	nmod:poss
72	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	73 Majesty	amod
73	Majesty	majesty	NOUN	Number=Sing	75 grandfather	nmod:poss
74	’s	's	PART	_	73 Majesty	case
75	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 make	parataxis
76	,	,	PUNCT	_	81 boy	punct
77	while	while	SCONJ	_	81 boy	mark
78	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	81 boy	nsubj
79	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	81 boy	cop
80	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	81 boy	det
81	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	75 grandfather	conj
82	,	,	PUNCT	_	83 going	punct
83	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	81 boy	acl
84	to	to	PART	_	85 eat	mark
85	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	83 going	xcomp
86	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	87 egg	det
87	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	85 eat	obj
88	,	,	PUNCT	_	98 happened	punct
89	and	and	CCONJ	_	98 happened	cc
90	breaking	break	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	98 happened	nsubj
91	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	90 breaking	obj
92	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	96 practice	case
93	to	to	ADP	_	92 according	fixed
94	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	96 practice	det
95	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	96 practice	amod
96	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	90 breaking	obl
97	,	,	PUNCT	_	90 breaking	punct
98	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 make	parataxis
99	to	to	PART	_	100 cut	mark
100	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	98 happened	xcomp
101	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	100 cut	obj
102	of	of	ADP	_	104 fingers	case
103	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	104 fingers	nmod:poss
104	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	101 one	nmod
105	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	our histories of thousand moons	no mention of any other regions than the two mighty empires of Lilliput and Blefuscu					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mention=Product
2	go	past · progressive	the two mighty empires of Lilliput and Blefuscu						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	the two mighty empires of Lilliput and Blefuscu not said here		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
4	engage	present · passive	our histories of thousand moons not said here					in a obstinate war goal	vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: in war=Goal
5	begin	past	a obstinate war			the following manner			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	allow	present · passive		moon		all hands			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary
8	break	gerund							vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
9	is	past	the primitive way of breaking eggs				upon the larger end		tree rules
10	is a	past	majesty	a boy					tree rules
11	go	gerund	a boy not said here						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
12	eat	to-infinitive	a boy not said here	a egg					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Patient
13	break	gerund		moon				accord the ancient practice	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient
14	accord	gerund							vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
15	happen	past							tree rules
16	cut	to-infinitive		one of majesty's fingers					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset one=Product
17	mention			any other regions than the two mighty empires of Lilliput and Blefuscu					nom mention «communication 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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