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title: Then they stooped down to find traces of the man’s footsteps, and wh… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they stooped down to find traces of the man’s footsteps, and when they had got them instantly set out in hot pursuit. Who acts: nyamatsanes. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 12

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Then they stooped down to find traces of the man’s footsteps, and when they had got them instantly set out in hot pursuit.

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**Who acts:** nyamatsanes · **What happens:** stoop down, find, get, set out · **To what, where:** traces, hot pursuit

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nyamatsanes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg5615:35:12
# text = Then they stooped down to find traces of the man’s footsteps, and when they had got them instantly set out in hot pursuit.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stooped	stoop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
7	traces	trace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’s	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	footsteps	footstep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	parataxis	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stoop down** | past | nyamatsanes *= nyamatsane* |  |  |  | then | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **find** | to-infinitive | nyamatsanes *= nyamatsane* *not said here* | traces of the man's footsteps |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trace=Topic |
| 3 | **get** | past · perfect | nyamatsanes *= nyamatsane* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **set out** | past | nyamatsanes *= nyamatsane* |  |  | hot pursuit |  | instantly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:** «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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