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title: Miss Mac Stab was arranging our breakfast-table as we entered. — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Miss Mac Stab was arranging our breakfast-table as we entered. Who acts: Miss, we. 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 53

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Miss Mac Stab was arranging our breakfast-table as we entered.

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**Who acts:** Miss, we · **What happens:** arrange, enter · **To what, where:** breakfast table

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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 (Miss, we), 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:pg74323:5:53
# text = Miss Mac Stab was arranging our breakfast-table as we entered.
1	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	Mac	Mac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Stab	Stab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	arranging	arrange	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
7	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrange** | past · progressive | Miss and Mac Stab | our breakfast table |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent table=Product |
| 2 | **enter** | past | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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