The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 239
Immediately they cocked up their tails, disappeared from sight, and fled into the blue sea.
Who acts: Beasts · What happens: cock up, disappear, flee · To what, where: tails, sight, blue sea
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 (Beasts), 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 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 disappeared | punct |
| 8 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 tails | acl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 sight | case |
| 10 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 disappeared | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fled | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fled | cc |
| 13 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cocked | conj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 sea | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sea | det |
| 16 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 sea | amod |
| 17 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fled | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cocked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cock up | past | Beasts = beast | Beasts's tails | immediately property | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient | |||
| 2 | disappear | participle | Beasts's tails not said here | sight | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from sight=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | flee | past | Beasts = beast not said here | the blue sea | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into sea=Initial_Location |
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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