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title: Perhaps an hour had passed in this employment, when lo! no ball more… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Perhaps an hour had passed in this employment, when lo! no ball more rolled, and looking up to see the cause of the delay, the knights had vanished! Who acts: hour. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 8, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 29

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Perhaps an hour had passed in this employment, when lo! no ball more rolled, and looking up to see the cause of the delay, the knights had vanished!

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**Who acts:** hour · **What happens:** pass, roll, look up, see, vanish, cause · **To what, where:** employment, cause, knights, delay

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hour), 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:pg74323:9:29
# text = Perhaps an hour had passed in this employment, when lo! no ball more rolled, and looking up to see the cause of the delay, the knights had vanished!
1	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	employment	employment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
11	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
15	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
16	rolled	roll	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	delay	delay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	vanished	vanish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past · perfect | a hour | this employment |  |  |  | perhaps *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme employment=Trajectory |
| 2 | **roll** | participle | a hour *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **look up** | gerund | a hour *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **see** | to-infinitive | a hour *not said here* | the cause of the delay |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **vanish** | past · perfect · passive |  | the knights |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **cause** |  |  | the delay |  |  |  |  | nom cause «event transitive»: of=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:** «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.

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