Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 10

The twelve jurors were all writing very busily on slates.

Who acts: twelve jurors · What happens: write · To what, where: slates

This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (twelve jurors), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 jurors	det
2	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 jurors	nummod
3	jurors	juror	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 writing	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 writing	aux
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 writing	advmod
6	writing	write	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 busily	advmod
8	busily	busily	ADV	_	6 writing	advmod
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 slates	case
10	slates	slate	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 writing	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 writing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past · progressive	the twelve jurors			slates		all, busily property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on slate=Destination

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: «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Project Gutenberg book 11 (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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