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title: He took the child in his arms and kissed it tenderly; then laying it… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 31

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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.

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

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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.

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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:pg7277:27:31
# text = 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.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	tenderly	tenderly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
14	laying	lay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	cradle	cradle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	determined	determine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	control	control	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	emotion	emotion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	reign	reign	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	again	again	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	as	as	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	before	before	ADV	RB	_	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to 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 |

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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 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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