--- title: "Miss Mac Stab glowered at us with an awful face, and replied savage… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics description: "Miss Mac Stab glowered at us with an awful face, and replied savagely, in coarse tones, 'Yes, here is a letter; but you wrote and sent it to the post yourselves; nobody would write to the likes of you. Who acts: Miss Mac Stab, you, nobody. 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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 (Miss Mac Stab, you, nobody), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg74323:5:55 # text = "Miss Mac Stab glowered at us with an awful face, and replied savagely, in coarse tones, 'Yes, here is a letter; but you wrote and sent it to the post yourselves; nobody would write to the likes of you. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Miss Miss PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 3 Mac Mac PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 Stab Stab PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 glowered glower VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 awful awful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 15 savagely savagely ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 coarse coarse ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 tones tone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 27 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 24 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 22 advmod _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 letter letter NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 29 but but CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 wrote write VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 post post NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 38 yourselves yourselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 37 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ; ; PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 40 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 42 nsubj _ _ 41 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 42 write write VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 conj _ _ 43 to to ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 likes like NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 obl _ _ 46 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 45 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **glower** *in a quote* | past | Miss Mac Stab | | | | | at us; with a awful face | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | | | | | | coarse tones *parataxis*; savagely *property* | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | | a letter | | here | | | tree rules | | 4 | **write** *in a quote* | past | you | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **send** *in a quote* | past | you *not said here* | face | | the post yourselves | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to post=Destination | | 6 | **write** *in a quote* | would | nobody | | the likes of you | | | | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent to like=Recipient | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/5/54/) - next →: [sentence 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/5/56/) - ↑ back to [Legends and Tales., part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/5/)