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title: Then he started off in pursuit, making his way through bushes and br… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he started off in pursuit, making his way through bushes and briars, and never stopped all day; but in the evening the stag entirely disappeared, and when golden lad came to look about him he found himself just opposite a hut in which lived a witch. Who acts: stag, golden lad, hut. A sentence o
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 72

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Then he started off in pursuit, making his way through bushes and briars, and never stopped all day; but in the evening the stag entirely disappeared, and when golden lad came to look about him he found himself just opposite a hut in which lived a witch.

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**Who acts:** stag, golden lad, hut · **What happens:** start off, make, not stop, disappear, come, look · **To what, where:** pursuit, way, bushes, hut, witch · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stag, golden lad, hut), 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:pg7277:49:72
# text = Then he started off in pursuit, making his way through bushes and briars, and never stopped all day; but in the evening the stag entirely disappeared, and when golden lad came to look about him he found himself just opposite a hut in which lived a witch.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	through	through	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	briars	briar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	stag	stag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
32	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	35	mark	_	_
33	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	xcomp	_	_
38	about	about	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obl	_	_
40	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	advcl	_	_
42	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	44	nsubj	_	_
43	just	just	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	opposite	opposite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	ccomp	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
47	in	in	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	49	nsubj	_	_
49	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	acl:relcl	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start off** | past | stag |  |  | pursuit | then |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **make** | gerund | stag *not said here* | stag's way |  | bushes and briars |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product |
| 3 | **not** **stop** | past | stag *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **disappear** | past | the stag |  |  |  | evening | entirely *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **come** | past | golden lad |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **look** | to-infinitive | golden lad *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about stag | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Theme |
| 7 | **find** | past | stag |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 8 | **opposite** | past | stag | a hut |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **live** | past | a hut | a witch |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme witch=Location |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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