The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 33

In the constant dread that his child would be taken from him, poor Kojata knew no rest night or day.

Who acts: poor Kojata · What happens: take, know · To what, where: child, constant dread

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 (poor Kojata), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 dread	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dread	det
3	constant	constant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dread	amod
4	dread	dread	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 knew	obl
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 taken	obj
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 child	nmod:poss
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 taken	nsubj:pass
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 taken	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 taken	aux:pass
10	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 dread	acl:relcl
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 taken	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dread	punct
14	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Kojata	amod
15	Kojata	Kojata	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 knew	nsubj
16	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 night	det
18	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 night	compound
19	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 knew	obl:unmarked
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 day	cc
21	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 night	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	would · passive		KING's child				from KING	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme that=Destination
2	know	past	poor Kojata			the constant dread	night		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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