The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 19

But it was no use; something stronger than himself compelled him to keep them there.

Who acts: feeling, manner · What happens: be, compel, keep · To what, where: use, Julia, eyes

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feeling, manner), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 use	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 use	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 use	cop
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 use	det
5	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 stronger	punct
7	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 stronger	obl:unmarked
8	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 use	parataxis
9	than	than	SCONJ	_	11 compelled	mark
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 compelled	nsubj
11	compelled	compel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 stronger	advcl
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 compelled	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 keep	mark
14	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 compelled	advcl
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 keep	obj
16	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 keep	advmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 use	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past	feeling	no use		tree rules
2	compel	past	manner	Julia		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	keep	to-infinitive	manner not said here	eyes = eye	there	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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