Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 11

Then the maiden answered, "Connla speaks to a young, fair maid, whom neither death nor old age awaits.

Who acts: maiden, Connla, young fair maid, old age · What happens: answer, speak, death, await · To what, where: young fair maid · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, 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 (maiden, Connla, young fair maid, old age), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 answered	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 maiden	det
3	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 answered	nsubj
4	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 speaks	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 speaks	punct
7	Connla	Connla	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 speaks	nsubj
8	speaks	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 answered	ccomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	14 maid	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 maid	det
11	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 maid	amod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 young	punct
13	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 maid	amod
14	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 speaks	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 death	punct
16	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 death	nsubj
17	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	18 death	det
18	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 maid	conj
19	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	21 age	cc
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 age	amod
21	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 awaits	nsubj
22	awaits	await	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 maid	acl:relcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the maiden		then		tree rules
2	speak speech: other in a quote	present	Connla			to a young fair maid and neither death	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to maid=Co-Agent
3	death in a quote		a young fair maid and neither death				tree rules
4	await in a quote	present	old age	a young fair maid and neither death not said here			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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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