--- title: Scarcely had the lank grey beggarman done this when he vanished from… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Scarcely had the lank grey beggarman done this when he vanished from out their sight, and no one present could say if he had flown through the air or if the earth had swallowed him up. Who acts: Scarcely, lank grey beggarman, one present, present. 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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, lank grey beggarman, one present, present), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7885:20:120 # text = Scarcely had the lank grey beggarman done this when he vanished from out their sight, and no one present could say if he had flown through the air or if the earth had swallowed him up. 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 6 det _ _ 4 lank lank ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 beggarman beggarman NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 7 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 8 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 7 obj _ _ 9 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 11 advmod _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 vanished vanish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 12 from from ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 out out ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 18 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 20 det _ _ 19 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 present present NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 21 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 23 if if SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 flown fly VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 22 ccomp _ _ 27 through through ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 or or CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 31 if if SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj:pass _ _ 34 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 swallowed swallow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 conj _ _ 36 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 up up ADP RP _ 35 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | Scarcely | the lank grey beggarman | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beggarman=Patient | | 2 | **do** | participle | the lank grey beggarman *not said here* | this | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | | 3 | **vanish** | past | Scarcely | | | lads's sight | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from sight=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | could | no one present | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **fly** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | present | | | the air | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent through air=Location | | 6 | **swallow up** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · passive | | the earth | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **sight** | | lads *= lad* | | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 119](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/20/119/) - next →: [sentence 121](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/20/121/) - ↑ back to [The Story-teller At Fault](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/20/)