Celtic Fairy Tales, I. Connla and the Fairy Maiden., sentence 42

Ossian had gone away to Tir-nan-Og with the fairy Niamh under very much the same circumstances as Condla Ruad; time flies in the land of eternal youth, and when Ossian returns, after a year as he thinks, more than three centuries had passed, and St. Patrick had just succeeded in introducing the new faith.

Who acts: Ossian, time, Patrick · What happens: go away, fly, return, think, pass, succeed · To what, where: Tir nan Og, same circumstances, land, three centuries, new faith

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, I. Connla and the Fairy Maiden.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ossian, time, Patrick), 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	Ossian	Ossian	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 gone	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gone	aux
3	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 gone	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	10 Og	case
6	Tir	Tir	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Og	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Tir	punct
8	nan	nan	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Og	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 Og	punct
10	Og	Og	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 gone	obl
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 fairy	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fairy	det
13	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gone	obl
14	Niamh	Niamh	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 fairy	appos
15	under	under	ADP	_	20 circumstances	case
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 much	advmod
17	much	much	ADV	_	20 circumstances	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 circumstances	det
19	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 circumstances	amod
20	circumstances	circumstance	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gone	obl
21	as	as	ADP	_	22 Condla	case
22	Condla	Condla	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 circumstances	nmod
23	Ruad	Ruad	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Condla	flat
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 flies	punct
25	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 flies	nsubj
26	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 gone	conj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 land	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 land	det
29	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 flies	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 youth	case
31	eternal	eternal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 youth	amod
32	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 land	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 thinks	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 thinks	cc
35	when	when	SCONJ	_	37 returns	mark
36	Ossian	Ossian	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 returns	nsubj
37	returns	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 thinks	advcl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 returns	punct
39	after	after	ADP	_	41 year	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 year	det
41	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 returns	obl
42	as	as	SCONJ	_	44 thinks	mark
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 thinks	nsubj
44	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 flies	conj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 passed	punct
46	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	48 three	advmod
47	than	than	ADP	_	46 more	fixed
48	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	49 centuries	nummod
49	centuries	century	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 passed	nsubj:pass
50	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 passed	aux
51	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 flies	advcl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 succeeded	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 succeeded	cc
54	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	55 Patrick	nmod:desc
55	Patrick	Patrick	PROPN	Number=Sing	58 succeeded	nsubj
56	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 succeeded	aux
57	just	just	ADV	_	58 succeeded	advmod
58	succeeded	succeed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	51 passed	conj
59	in	in	SCONJ	_	60 introducing	mark
60	introducing	introduce	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	58 succeeded	advcl
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 faith	det
62	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	63 faith	amod
63	faith	faith	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 introducing	obj
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go away	past · perfect	Ossian		Tir nan Og	the same circumstances as Condla		with the fairy; away property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to og=Initial_Location
2	fly	present	time			the land of eternal youth			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in land=Location
3	return	present	Ossian				year		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	think speech: other	present	Ossian						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	pass	past · perfect · passive		three centuries					vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory
6	succeed	past · perfect	Patrick St.						vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	introduce	gerund	Patrick St. not said here	the new faith					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent faith=Patient

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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