Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 2: Alice's Evidence (sentence first, a pack of cards, and waking up), sentence 21

The jury all write down «She doesn't believe there's an atom of meaning in it», but none of them tries to explain the paper.

Who acts: jury, atom, none, paper · What happens: write down, not believe, be, try, explain · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 2: Alice's Evidence (sentence first, a pack of cards, and waking up)» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (jury, atom, none, paper), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 jury	det
2	jury	jury	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 write	nsubj
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 write	advmod
4	write	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 write	compound:prt
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 believe	punct
7	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 believe	nsubj
8	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 believe	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 believe	advmod
10	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 write	ccomp
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 's	expl
12	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 believe	ccomp
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 atom	det
14	atom	atom	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 's	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 meaning	case
16	meaning	mean	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 atom	nmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 meaning	nmod
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 believe	punct
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 tries	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 tries	cc
22	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	25 tries	nsubj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 none	nmod
25	tries	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 write	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 explain	mark
27	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 tries	xcomp
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 paper	det
29	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 explain	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 write	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	write down	present	the jury		all property	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not believe in a quote	present · do-support	jury			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	be in a quote	present	a atom of meaning in meaning	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	try	present	none			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	explain speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	the paper			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:books:024-alice-alices-evidence-2.lesson:21.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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