The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 111

My mother compelled me to do it; it was against my will, for I love you dearly.

Who acts: mother, I · What happens: compel, do, love · To what, where: me, dearest, you

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, I), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mother	nmod:poss
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 compelled	nsubj
3	compelled	compel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 compelled	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 do	mark
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 compelled	xcomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 do	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 will	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 will	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 will	cop
11	against	against	ADP	_	13 will	case
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 will	nmod:poss
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 compelled	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 love	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 love	mark
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 love	nsubj
17	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 compelled	conj
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 love	obj
19	dearly	dearly	ADV	_	17 love	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 compelled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	compel	past	My mother	me		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Patient clause=Result
2	do	to-infinitive	My mother not said here	dearest		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
3	love	present	I	you	dearly property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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