The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 90

And though Helga was very unwilling to go, something inside her forced her to obey.

Who acts: Helga, something · What happens: be, go, force, obey · To what, where: Helga

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Helga, something), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	13 forced	cc
2	though	though	SCONJ	_	6 unwilling	mark
3	Helga	Helga	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 unwilling	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 unwilling	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 unwilling	advmod
6	unwilling	unwilling	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 forced	advcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 go	mark
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 unwilling	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 unwilling	punct
10	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 forced	nsubj
11	inside	inside	ADP	_	12 her	case
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 something	nmod
13	forced	force	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 forced	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 obey	mark
16	obey	obey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 forced	xcomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 forced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Helga		unwilling property	tree rules
2	go	to-infinitive	Helga not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	force	past	something	Helga		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
4	obey	to-infinitive	Helga not said here			vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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