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title: In the constant dread that his child would be taken from him, poor K… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In the constant dread that his child would be taken from him, poor Kojata knew no rest night or day. Who acts: poor Kojata. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 33

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

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

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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 (poor Kojata), 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:pg7277:27:33
# text = In the constant dread that his child would be taken from him, poor Kojata knew no rest night or day.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	constant	constant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	dread	dread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	obj	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
14	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Kojata	Kojata	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
18	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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