The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter III, sentence 44
Whereupon the Emperor, his father, made a law commanding all his subjects to break the smaller end of their eggs.
Who acts: Emperor · What happens: make, command, break · To what, where: law, subjects, smaller end · 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 (Emperor), 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 | Whereupon | whereupon | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 made | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Emperor | det |
| 3 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 made | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 father | punct |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 father | nmod:poss |
| 6 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Emperor | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Emperor | punct |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 law | det |
| 10 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obj |
| 11 | commanding | command | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 made | advcl |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 subjects | det:predet |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 subjects | nmod:poss |
| 14 | subjects | subject | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 commanding | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 break | mark |
| 16 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 commanding | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 end | det |
| 18 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 end | amod |
| 19 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 break | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 eggs | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 eggs | nmod:poss |
| 22 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 end | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the Emperor | a law | whereupon property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Product | |||
| 2 | command | gerund | the Emperor not said here | majesty's subjects | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | break | to-infinitive | the Emperor not said here | the smaller end of ends's eggs | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer end=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/45/44/