The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 12
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 · What happens: stoop down, find, get, set out · To what, where: traces, hot pursuit
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.
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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 stooped | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stooped | nsubj |
| 3 | stooped | stoop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 stooped | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 find | mark |
| 6 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 stooped | advcl |
| 7 | traces | trace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 find | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 footsteps | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 footsteps | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 man | case |
| 12 | footsteps | footstep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 traces | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 set | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 set | cc |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 got | advmod |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 got | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 got | aux |
| 18 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 set | parataxis |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 set | nsubj |
| 20 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 21 set | advmod |
| 21 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stooped | conj |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 set | compound:prt |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 pursuit | case |
| 24 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 pursuit | amod |
| 25 | pursuit | pursuit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 set | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stooped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | 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 |
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: «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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