Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 29

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

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.

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

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	5 passed	advmod
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hour	det
3	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 passed	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 passed	aux
5	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 employment	case
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 employment	det
8	employment	employment	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 passed	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lo	punct
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 lo	advmod
11	lo	lo	INTJ	_	8 employment	discourse
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 lo	punct
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 ball	det
14	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lo	appos
15	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 rolled	advmod
16	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 lo	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 looking	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 looking	cc
19	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 passed	conj
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 looking	compound:prt
21	to	to	PART	_	22 see	mark
22	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 looking	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 cause	det
24	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 see	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 delay	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 delay	det
27	delay	delay	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 cause	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 vanished	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 knights	det
30	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 vanished	nsubj:pass
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 vanished	aux
32	vanished	vanish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 passed	conj
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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

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.

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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 29

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 29