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title: The years passed by; and, onward as they sped, That child from beaut… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: 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, snow
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 3, sentence 43

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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.

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

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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.

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg78491:3:43
# text = 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.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	onward	onward	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	sped	speed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	still	still	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
22	In	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
25	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	parataxis	_	_
26	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	nsubj	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	parataxis	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
33	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	sunny	sunny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	gleams	gleam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
36	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	40	nsubj	_	_
37	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	36	appos	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	pursue	pursue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	47	punct	_	_
42	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
43	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
44	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	46	det	_	_
45	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	succession	succession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
47	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
48	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	49	det	_	_
49	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	56	punct	_	_
51	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	52	det	_	_
52	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nsubj	_	_
53	in	in	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nmod	_	_
55	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	56	cop	_	_
56	wilful	wilful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
58	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	_
60	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
61	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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:** «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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