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title: "Olga in perfect terror, pale as marble, came rushing to meet me. — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: "Olga in perfect terror, pale as marble, came rushing to meet me. Who acts: Olga. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 50

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"Olga in perfect terror, pale as marble, came rushing to meet me.

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**Who acts:** Olga · **What happens:** come, rush, meet · **To what, where:** France

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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 (Olga), 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:pg74323:5:50
# text = "Olga in perfect terror, pale as marble, came rushing to meet me.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Olga	Olga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	rushing	rush	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	xcomp	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *in a quote* | past | Olga in perfect terror |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **rush** *in a quote* | gerund | Olga in perfect terror *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Result |
| 3 | **meet** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Olga in perfect terror *not said here* | France |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Co-Agent |

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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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