Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 19

A maiden unseen has met us, and by her power would take from me my dear, my comely son.

Who acts: maiden unseen · What happens: meet, take · To what, where: us

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 unseen), 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 unseen	det
2	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 unseen	amod
3	unseen	unseen	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 met	nsubj
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 met	aux
5	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 met	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 take	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 take	cc
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 power	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 power	nmod:poss
11	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 take	obl
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 take	aux
13	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 met	parataxis
14	from	from	ADP	_	15 me	case
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 take	obl
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 dear	nmod:poss
17	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 take	csubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 son	punct
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 son	nmod:poss
20	comely	comely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 son	amod
21	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 take	vocative
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	present · perfect	a maiden unseen	us					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Co-Agent
2	take	would						by unseen's power; from me; my comely son vocative	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from i=Initial_Location

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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