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title: What with the elephant, and the Princess's affection, and the knowle… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: What with the elephant, and the Princess's affection, and the knowledge that the very next day he would receive the _History of Rotundia_, beautifully bound, with the Royal arms on the cover, Tom could hardly sleep a wink. Who acts: affection, Tom. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, O
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 59

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What with the elephant, and the Princess's affection, and the knowledge that the very next day he would receive the \_History of Rotundia\_, beautifully bound, with the Royal arms on the cover, Tom could hardly sleep a wink.

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**Who acts:** affection, Tom · **What happens:** receive, sleep · **To what, where:** History, wink

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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 (affection, Tom), 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:pg23661:3:59
# text = What with the elephant, and the Princess's affection, and the knowledge that the very next day he would receive the _History of Rotundia_, beautifully bound, with the Royal arms on the cover, Tom could hardly sleep a wink.
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	affection	affection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	very	very	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	receive	receive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	History	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Rotundia	Rotundia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	bound	bound	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	Royal	Royal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	_
37	on	on	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	cover	cover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
41	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
42	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
43	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	parataxis	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	wink	wink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **receive** | would | affection | the History of Rotundia |  |  | day |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent history=Theme |
| 2 | **sleep** | could | Tom | a wink |  |  |  | hardly *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wink=Theme |

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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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