The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 3, sentence 43

The years passed by; and, onward as they sped, That child from beauty still to beauty grew; In her, full many a fair one came and fled Like sunny gleams that each the last pursue; And yet that glad succession brought no change; Each child in turn was wilful, sweet, and strange.

Who acts: years, snows, beauty, many, sunny gleams, glad succession · What happens: pass by, speed, grow, come, flee, pursue · To what, where: child, change

This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (years, snows, beauty, many), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 years	det
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 passed	nsubj
3	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	3 passed	obl
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 sped	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sped	cc
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 and	punct
8	onward	onward	ADV	_	11 sped	advmod
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 sped	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sped	nsubj
11	sped	speed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 passed	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 child	punct
13	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 child	det
14	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sped	obl
15	from	from	ADP	_	16 beauty	case
16	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 child	nmod
17	still	still	ADV	_	20 grew	advmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 beauty	case
19	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 grew	nsubj
20	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sped	advcl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 her	punct
22	In	in	ADP	_	23 her	case
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 passed	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 her	punct
25	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 her	parataxis
26	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 came	nsubj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 one	det
28	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 one	amod
29	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 came	nsubj
30	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 full	parataxis
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 fled	cc
32	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 came	conj
33	Like	like	ADP	_	35 gleams	case
34	sunny	sunny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 gleams	amod
35	gleams	gleam	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 fled	obl
36	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 pursue	nsubj
37	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	36 that	appos
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 pursue	det
39	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 pursue	amod
40	pursue	pursue	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 gleams	acl:relcl
41	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 brought	punct
42	And	and	CCONJ	_	47 brought	cc
43	yet	yet	ADV	_	47 brought	advmod
44	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	46 succession	det
45	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 succession	amod
46	succession	succession	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 brought	nsubj
47	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 came	conj
48	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	49 change	det
49	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 brought	obj
50	;	;	PUNCT	_	56 wilful	punct
51	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	52 child	det
52	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 wilful	nsubj
53	in	in	ADP	_	54 turn	case
54	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 child	nmod
55	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 wilful	cop
56	wilful	wilful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 brought	parataxis
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 sweet	punct
58	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 wilful	conj
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 strange	punct
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 strange	cc
61	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 wilful	conj
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	pass by	participle	the years			in child	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in she=Location
2	speed	past	snows = snow	that child from beauty		onward property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	grow	past	beauty		still		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	past	many			a fair one nsubj	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	flee	past	many not said here			like sunny gleams	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	pursue		sunny gleams				tree rules
7	bring	past	that glad succession	no change	yet		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent change=Theme
8	is	past	each child in turn			wilful property	tree rules
9	be		each child in turn not said here				tree rules
10	be		each child in turn 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: «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Project Gutenberg book 78491 (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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The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 3, sentence 43