The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 78

“All I can tell you is that he will be my husband, if ever I have one,” returned Helga; and that was all she would say.

Who acts: All, husband, that · What happens: tell, be, have, return · To what, where: you, husband, one, Helga · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (All, husband, that), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
2	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 tell	nsubj
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 tell	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 tell	iobj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 husband	cop
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 husband	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 husband	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 husband	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 husband	cop
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 husband	nmod:poss
13	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 have	mark
16	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	18 have	advmod
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 have	nsubj
18	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	parataxis
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 have	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
22	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	ccomp
23	Helga	Helga	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 returned	obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 say	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 say	cc
26	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 say	nsubj:outer
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 say	cop
28	all	all	ADV	_	31 say	advmod
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 say	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 say	aux
31	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tell	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	can	All		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
2	is a in a quote	present	husband	my husband				tree rules
3	have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	All	one		ever		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
4	return	past		Helga				vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent helga=Theme
5	be speech: assert	would · past	that				all, say property	tree rules

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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