Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 63
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 · What happens: be, accompany, come, enter, knock · To what, where: Miss Mac, room
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.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 sooner | det |
| 2 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 gone | advmod |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gone | cop |
| 4 | Olga | Olga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 gone | nsubj |
| 5 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 Mac | case |
| 7 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Mac | compound |
| 8 | Mac | Mac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 gone | obl |
| 9 | Stab | Stab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Mac | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 accompanied | punct |
| 11 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 Mac | acl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 brother | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 brother | nmod:poss |
| 14 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 accompanied | obl:agent |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sister | cc |
| 16 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 brother | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gone | parataxis |
| 19 | upstairs | upstairs | ADV | _ | 18 came | advmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 entered | cc |
| 21 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 came | conj |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 room | nmod:poss |
| 23 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 entered | obj |
| 24 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 25 knocking | mark |
| 25 | knocking | knock | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 entered | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | 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 |
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.
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