The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 32

‘My stepmother says that none but Olwen, the daughter of Yspaddaden Penkawr, shall be my wife.’

Who acts: stepmother, none · What happens: say, be · To what, where: wife · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stepmother, none), 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	_	4 says	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 stepmother	nmod:poss
3	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 wife	mark
6	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	19 wife	nsubj
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 Olwen	cc
8	Olwen	Olwen	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 none	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 daughter	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 daughter	det
11	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Olwen	appos
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Yspaddaden	case
13	Yspaddaden	Yspaddaden	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 daughter	nmod
14	Penkawr	Penkawr	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Yspaddaden	flat
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 none	punct
16	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 wife	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 wife	cop
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 wife	nmod:poss
19	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	ccomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	My stepmother						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	shall	none	my wife					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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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