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title: Then the maiden answered, "Connla speaks to a young, fair maid, whom… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 11

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

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**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

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7885:4:11
# text = Then the maiden answered, "Connla speaks to a young, fair maid, whom neither death nor old age awaits.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Connla	Connla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	speaks	speak	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
18	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
19	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	21	cc	_	_
20	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	awaits	await	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | 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 |

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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.

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**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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