--- title: Scarcely had the darkness come on, when the procession appeared in s… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics description: Scarcely had the darkness come on, when the procession appeared in sight, a well-ordered company, and the concealed heard their march till the rising of the sun, and the noise thereof was like the light trampling of a flock of sheep. Who acts: Scarcely, procession, noise, sun. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarcely, procession, noise, sun), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg74323:23:48 # text = Scarcely had the darkness come on, when the procession appeared in sight, a well-ordered company, and the concealed heard their march till the rising of the sun, and the noise thereof was like the light trampling of a flock of sheep. 1 Scarcely Scarcely PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 darkness darkness NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 6 on on ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 when when SCONJ WRB _ 11 mark _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 procession procession NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 appeared appear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 16 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 18 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ordered order VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 19 amod _ _ 19 company company NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 concealed conceal VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 acl _ _ 24 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 25 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 march march NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 till till ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 rising rising NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 noise noise NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 37 thereof thereof ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 38 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 cop _ _ 39 like like ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 trampling trampling NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 flock flock NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nmod _ _ 46 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 sheep sheep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | Scarcely | the darkness | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent darkness=Patient | | 2 | **come on** | present | Scarcely *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **appear** | past | the procession | | | sight and a ordered company | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sight=Location | | 4 | **order** | participle | | | | | | well *property* | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **conceal** | participle | | | | | | | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **hear** | past | | servants's march | | | till the rising of the sun | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer march=Stimulus | | 7 | **is** | past | the noise | | | | | like the light trampling; of a flock of sheep; thereof *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **rise** | | the sun | | | | | | nom rising «event intransitive»: of=agent | 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:** «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Project Gutenberg book 74323 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/23/47/) - next →: [sentence 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/23/49/) - ↑ back to [A Historical Tale., part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/23/)