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title: Immediately they cocked up their tails, disappeared from sight, and… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Immediately they cocked up their tails, disappeared from sight, and fled into the blue sea. Who acts: Beasts. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 239

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Immediately they cocked up their tails, disappeared from sight, and fled into the blue sea.

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**Who acts:** Beasts · **What happens:** cock up, disappear, flee · **To what, where:** tails, sight, blue sea

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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.

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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:pg540:7:239
# text = Immediately they cocked up their tails, disappeared from sight, and fled into the blue sea.
1	Immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	cocked	cock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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 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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