Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 14
A fairy crown awaits thee to grace thy comely face and royal form.
Who acts: fairy crown · What happens: await, grace · To what, where: thee, comely face
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 (fairy crown), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 crown | det |
| 2 | fairy | fairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 crown | amod |
| 3 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 awaits | nsubj |
| 4 | awaits | await | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 awaits | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 grace | mark |
| 7 | grace | grace | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 awaits | advcl |
| 8 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 face | nmod:poss |
| 9 | comely | comely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 face | amod |
| 10 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 grace | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 form | cc |
| 12 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 form | amod |
| 13 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 face | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 awaits | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | await | present | a fairy crown | thee | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grace | to-infinitive | a fairy crown not said here | thy comely face and royal form | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme face=Destination |
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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