A fair trial, and the Wonderland court that gets it all wrong, sentence 19

The jurors in the book write their names on slates «for fear they should forget them», which is Carroll making fun of juries that do not pay attention.

Who acts: jurors, Carroll, juries, books · What happens: write, forget, be, make, not pay, name · To what, where: names, slates, Carroll, fun, attention · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «A fair trial, and the Wonderland court that gets it all wrong» of the world 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 (jurors, Carroll, juries, books), 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 jurors	det
2	jurors	juror	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 write	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 book	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 book	det
5	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 jurors	nmod
6	write	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 names	nmod:poss
8	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 write	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 slates	case
10	slates	slate	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 write	obl
11	«	«	PUNCT	_	16 forget	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 fear	case
13	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 forget	obl
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 forget	nsubj
15	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 forget	aux
16	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 write	advcl
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 forget	obj
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 forget	punct
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Carroll	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 Carroll	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 Carroll	cop
22	Carroll	carroll	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 forget	parataxis
23	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 Carroll	acl
24	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 making	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 juries	case
26	juries	jury	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 fun	nmod
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 pay	nsubj
28	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 pay	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 pay	advmod
30	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 juries	acl:relcl
31	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 pay	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 write	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	write	present	the jurors in the book	books's names	slates		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent name=Theme on slate=Destination
2	forget in a quote	should	jurors = juror	names = name		for fear	tree rules
3	is a	present		Carroll			tree rules
4	make	gerund	Carroll not said here	fun of juries			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fun=Product
5	not pay	present · do-support	juries	attention			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset
6	name		books = book				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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:world:191-a-fair-trial-and-the-wonderland-court-that-gets-it-all-wrong.lesson:19.

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): no change. 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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