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title: No sooner was Olga gone than Miss Mac Stab, accompanied by her broth… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: No sooner was Olga gone than Miss Mac Stab, accompanied by her brother and sister, came upstairs and entered my room without knocking. 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 
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 63

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No sooner was Olga gone than Miss Mac Stab, accompanied by her brother and sister, came upstairs and entered my room without knocking.

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**Who acts:** Olga · **What happens:** be, accompany, come, enter, knock · **To what, where:** Miss Mac, room

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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:pg74323:5:63
# text = No sooner was Olga gone than Miss Mac Stab, accompanied by her brother and sister, came upstairs and entered my room without knocking.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	Olga	Olga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Mac	Mac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	Stab	Stab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	accompanied	accompany	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:agent	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
19	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	knocking	knock	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Olga |  |  |  |  | than Miss Mac; go, soon *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **accompany** | participle |  | Miss Mac *not said here* |  |  |  | Olga's brother and sister *obl:agent* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come** | past |  |  |  |  |  | upstairs *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **enter** | past |  | my room |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination |
| 5 | **knock** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |

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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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