The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 58

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 · What happens: lie down, put, curl, make · To what, where: pocket, hand, little trunk, fingers, heart

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.

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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lay	nsubj
2	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADV	_	2 lay	advmod
4	comfortably	comfortably	ADV	_	2 lay	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 pocket	case
6	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 pocket	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Tom	case
8	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lay	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 curled	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 curled	cc
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 put	advmod
12	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 put	nsubj
13	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 curled	advcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 hand	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 hand	nmod:poss
16	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 put	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 put	punct
18	Fido	Fido	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 curled	nsubj
19	curled	curl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lay	conj
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 trunk	nmod:poss
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 trunk	amod
22	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 curled	obj
23	around	around	ADP	_	26 fingers	case
24	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 fingers	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 Tom	case
26	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 curled	obl
27	with	with	ADP	_	30 confidence	case
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 confidence	det
29	affectionate	affectionate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 confidence	amod
30	confidence	confidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 curled	obl
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 made	nsubj
32	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 confidence	acl:relcl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 boy	det
34	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 heart	nmod:poss
35	's	's	PART	_	34 boy	case
36	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 made	obj
37	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 made	xcomp
38	to	to	ADP	_	42 pet	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 pet	nmod:poss
40	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 pet	amod
41	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 pet	amod
42	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 warm	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	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

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 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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