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title: He lay down comfortably in Tom's pocket, and when Tom put in his han… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: He lay down comfortably in Tom's pocket, and when Tom put in his hand, Fido curled his little trunk around Tom's fingers with an affectionate confidence that made the boy's heart warm to his new little pet. Who acts: Tom, Fido, affectionate confidence. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbi
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 58

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He lay down comfortably in Tom's pocket, and when Tom put in his hand, Fido curled his little trunk around Tom's fingers with an affectionate confidence that made the boy's heart warm to his new little pet.

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**Who acts:** Tom, Fido, affectionate confidence · **What happens:** lie down, put, curl, make · **To what, where:** pocket, hand, little trunk, fingers, heart

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This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tom, Fido, affectionate confidence), 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:pg23661:3:58
# text = He lay down comfortably in Tom's pocket, and when Tom put in his hand, Fido curled his little trunk around Tom's fingers with an affectionate confidence that made the boy's heart warm to his new little pet.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	down	down	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	comfortably	comfortably	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
12	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
18	Fido	Fido	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	curled	curl	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	trunk	trunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	around	around	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	affectionate	affectionate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	confidence	confidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
31	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
32	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	's	's	PART	POS	_	34	case	_	_
36	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
37	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	xcomp	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
40	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
41	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie down** | past | Tom |  |  | Tom's pocket |  | comfortably, down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in pocket=Location |
| 2 | **put** | past | Tom |  |  | Tom's hand |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in hand=Destination |
| 3 | **curl** | past | Fido | Tom's little trunk |  | Tom's fingers |  | with a affectionate confidence | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent trunk=Theme around finger=Destination |
| 4 | **make** | past | a affectionate confidence | the boy's heart |  |  |  | warm *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset heart=Product |

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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 Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Project Gutenberg book 23661 (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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