--- title: Miss Mac Stab, with one sweep of her hand, brushed all my writing ma… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics description: Miss Mac Stab, with one sweep of her hand, brushed all my writing materials on the floor, and her no less amiable brother seated himself, saying he should wait till he had the keys. ' Who acts: Miss Mac Stab, amiable brother, Mac. 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' **Who acts:** Miss Mac Stab, amiable brother, Mac · **What happens:** brush, seat, say, wait, have · **To what, where:** writing materials, floor, Mac, keys · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 Mac Stab, amiable brother, Mac), 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:pg74323:5:66 # text = Miss Mac Stab, with one sweep of her hand, brushed all my writing materials on the floor, and her no less amiable brother seated himself, saying he should wait till he had the keys. ' 1 Miss Miss PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 2 Mac Mac PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Stab Stab PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 sweep sweep NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 12 brushed brush VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 16 det:predet _ _ 14 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 writing writing NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 materials material NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 17 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 22 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 23 no no ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 25 advmod _ _ 25 amiable amiable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 seated seat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 28 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 ccomp _ _ 34 till till SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 35 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 advcl _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 keys key NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 33 punct _ _ 40 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **brush** | past | Miss Mac Stab | my writing materials | | the floor | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent material=Theme on floor=Destination | | 2 | **seat** | past | Stab's amiable brother | Mac | | | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Value | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Miss Mac Stab *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **wait** | should | Mac | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **have** | past | Mac | the keys | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Patient | 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 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/5/65/) - next →: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/5/67/) - ↑ back to [Legends and Tales., part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/5/)