The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 223
Immediately they cocked up their tails and dispersed among the thick forests.
Who acts: pieces · What happens: cock up, disperse · To what, where: tails
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pieces), 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 | Immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 3 cocked | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 cocked | nsubj |
| 3 | cocked | cock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 cocked | compound:prt |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 tails | nmod:poss |
| 6 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 cocked | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 dispersed | cc |
| 8 | dispersed | disperse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 cocked | conj |
| 9 | among | among | ADP | _ | 12 forests | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 forests | det |
| 11 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 forests | amod |
| 12 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 dispersed | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cocked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cock up | past | pieces = piece | pieces's tails | immediately property | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient | |||
| 2 | disperse | participle | pieces = piece not said here | among the thick forests | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: 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: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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