Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 15

Come, and never shall thy comeliness fade, nor thy youth, till the last awful day of judgment."

Who acts: you, thy · What happens: come, fade · To what, where: comeliness fade

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 (you, thy), 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	Come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fade	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fade	cc
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 fade	advmod
5	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 fade	aux
6	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	8 fade	nmod:poss
7	comeliness	comeliness	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fade	compound
8	fade	fade	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Come	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 youth	punct
10	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	12 youth	cc
11	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	12 youth	nmod:poss
12	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fade	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 day	punct
14	till	till	ADP	_	18 day	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 day	det
16	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 day	amod
17	awful	awful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 day	amod
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Come	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 judgment	case
20	judgment	judgment	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 day	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Come	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	imperative	you not said here	thy comeliness fade nor thy youth			day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fade		thy						nom fade «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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