The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 40

But somehow or other her mother at last persuaded her, and she was forced to tell the whole story.

Who acts: mother · What happens: persuade, force, tell · To what, where: answer, mother, whole story · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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	_	2 somehow	cc
2	somehow	somehow	ADV	_	9 persuaded	advmod
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 other	cc
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 somehow	conj
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mother	nmod:poss
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 persuaded	nsubj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 last	case
8	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mother	nmod
9	persuaded	persuade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 persuaded	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 forced	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 forced	cc
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 forced	nsubj:pass
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 forced	aux:pass
15	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 persuaded	parataxis
16	to	to	PART	_	17 tell	mark
17	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 forced	xcomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 story	det
19	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 story	amod
20	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tell	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 persuaded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	persuade	past	mother's mother at last	answer	somehow property	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
2	force	past · passive		mother		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	mother not said here	the whole story		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient

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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