---
title: "The second day passed, but our missing trunks did not appear--in fa… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: "The second day passed, but our missing trunks did not appear--in fact never did--and the third morning, as poor Olga was descending the stairs for breakfast, Miss Mac Stab attacked her crying out, 'See the painted Jezebel! with her curls and diamond rings! Who acts: Mac Stab, missing trunks, poor O
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/5/48/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/) / [Legends and Tales., part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/5/) / 48

# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 48

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
"The second day passed, but our missing trunks did not appear--in fact never did--and the third morning, as poor Olga was descending the stairs for breakfast, Miss Mac Stab attacked her crying out, 'See the painted Jezebel! with her curls and diamond rings!

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Mac Stab, missing trunks, poor Olga · **What happens:** pass, not appear, not do, descend, attack, cry out · **To what, where:** fact, stairs, painted Jezebel

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mac Stab, missing trunks, poor Olga), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg74323:5:48
# text = "The second day passed, but our missing trunks did not appear--in fact never did--and the third morning, as poor Olga was descending the stairs for breakfast, Miss Mac Stab attacked her crying out, 'See the painted Jezebel! with her curls and diamond rings!
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
8	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	missing	missing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	trunks	trunk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
11	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	appear	appear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
17	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	23	amod	_	_
23	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	Olga	Olga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	descending	descend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	stairs	stair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
35	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	Mac	Mac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	Stab	Stab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
38	attacked	attack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
39	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	38	advcl	_	_
41	out	out	ADP	RP	_	40	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	See	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	conj	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	47	amod	_	_
47	Jezebel	Jezebel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	47	punct	_	_
49	with	with	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	curls	curl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obl	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
53	diamond	diamond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	compound	_	_
54	rings	ring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	38	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** *in a quote* | participle | Mac Stab *not said here* |  |  |  | day; morning |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **appear** *in a quote* | past · do-support | our missing trunks |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **do** *in a quote* | past | our missing trunks *not said here* |  |  | fact |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **descend** *in a quote* | past · progressive | poor Olga | the stairs |  |  |  | for breakfast | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stair=Theme |
| 5 | **attack** *in a quote* | past | Mac Stab |  |  |  |  |  | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **cry out** *speech: express* *in a quote* | gerund | Mac Stab *not said here* |  |  |  |  | Olga *nmod:poss* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive | Mac Stab *not said here* | the painted Jezebel |  |  |  | with Olga's curls and diamond rings | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer jezebel=Stimulus |
| 8 | **paint** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/5/47/)
- next →: [sentence 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/5/49/)
- ↑ back to [Legends and Tales., part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/5/)