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title: Ossian had gone away to Tir-nan-Og with the fairy Niamh under very m… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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 
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, I. Connla and the Fairy Maiden., sentence 42

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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.

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**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

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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.

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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:pg7885:35:42
# text = 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.
1	Ossian	Ossian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	Tir	Tir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	nan	nan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Og	Og	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
14	Niamh	Niamh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
15	under	under	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	very	very	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	much	much	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	circumstances	circumstance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Condla	Condla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	Ruad	Ruad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
25	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	flies	fly	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	eternal	eternal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
35	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	37	mark	_	_
36	Ossian	Ossian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	returns	return	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
39	after	after	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
42	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
43	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	thinks	think	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
46	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	48	advmod	_	_
47	than	than	ADP	IN	_	46	fixed	_	_
48	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	49	nummod	_	_
49	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	nsubj:pass	_	_
50	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
51	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
54	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	55	nmod:desc	_	_
55	Patrick	Patrick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	58	nsubj	_	_
56	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	aux	_	_
57	just	just	ADV	RB	_	58	advmod	_	_
58	succeeded	succeed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	51	conj	_	_
59	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	60	mark	_	_
60	introducing	introduce	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	58	advcl	_	_
61	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
62	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	63	amod	_	_
63	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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