Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 13

“They can’t have anything to put down yet, before the trial’s begun.”

Who acts: jurors · What happens: not have, put down · To what, where: anything, begun

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 (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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct
2	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 have	nsubj
3	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 have	aux
4	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 have	advmod
5	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 have	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 put	mark
8	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 anything	acl
9	down	down	ADP	_	8 put	compound:prt
10	yet	yet	ADV	_	8 put	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 begun	punct
12	before	before	ADP	_	16 begun	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 trial	det
14	trial	trial	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 begun	nmod:poss
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 trial	case
16	begun	begun	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not have in a quote	can	jurors = juror	anything					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient
2	put down in a quote	to-infinitive	jurors = juror not said here	anything not said here		the trial's begun	yet		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent before begun=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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