The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 31

He took the child in his arms and kissed it tenderly; then laying it in its cradle, he determined to control his emotion and began to reign again as before.

Who acts: KING · What happens: take, kiss, lay, determine, control, begin · To what, where: child, arms, cradle, emotion

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (KING), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 child	det
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 arms	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 arms	nmod:poss
7	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 took	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 kissed	cc
9	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 kissed	obj
11	tenderly	tenderly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 kissed	xcomp
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 laying	punct
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 laying	advmod
14	laying	lay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 took	parataxis
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 laying	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 cradle	case
17	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 cradle	nmod:poss
18	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 laying	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 determined	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 determined	nsubj
21	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	parataxis
22	to	to	PART	_	23 control	mark
23	control	control	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 determined	xcomp
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 emotion	nmod:poss
25	emotion	emotion	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 control	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 began	cc
27	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 determined	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 reign	mark
29	reign	reign	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 began	xcomp
30	again	again	ADV	_	29 reign	advmod
31	as	as	ADP	_	32 before	case
32	before	before	ADV	_	29 reign	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	KING	the child	KING's arms			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent child=Value in arm=Location
2	kiss	past	KING not said here	child			tenderly property	vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent
3	lay	gerund		child	child's cradle	then		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in cradle=Destination
4	determine	past	KING					vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	control	to-infinitive	KING not said here	KING's emotion				vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent emotion=Theme
6	begin	past	KING not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	reign	to-infinitive	KING not said here			again		tree rules
8	emote		KING					nom emotion «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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 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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