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title: The reply to this letter was absolute silence, and the sudden disapp… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The reply to this letter was absolute silence, and the sudden disappearance of the Mac Stabs from the town. Who acts: reply, Mac Stabs. 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 77

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The reply to this letter was absolute silence, and the sudden disappearance of the Mac Stabs from the town.

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**Who acts:** reply, Mac Stabs · **What happens:** be, disappear · **To what, where:** absolute silence, town

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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 (reply, Mac Stabs), 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:pg74323:5:77
# text = The reply to this letter was absolute silence, and the sudden disappearance of the Mac Stabs from the town.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	reply	reply	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	absolute	absolute	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	disappearance	disappearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Mac	Mac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Stabs	Stab	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the reply to this letter | absolute silence |  |  |  | the sudden disappearance of the Mac Stabs from the town *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **disappear** |  | the Mac Stabs |  |  | the town |  |  | nom disappearance «act intransitive»: of=agent from=place |

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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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