Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 14

“They’re putting down their names,” the Gryphon whispered in reply, “for fear they should forget them before the end of the trial.”

Who acts: jurors, Gryphon · What happens: 're, put down, whisper, forget, name · To what, where: names, reply, creatures · Speech: someone speaks here

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, Gryphon), 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	_	3 ’re	punct
2	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ’re	nsubj
3	’re	're	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 whispered	advcl
4	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 ’re	xcomp
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 putting	compound:prt
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 names	nmod:poss
7	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 putting	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 ’re	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 ’re	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Gryphon	det
11	Gryphon	Gryphon	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 whispered	nsubj
12	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 reply	case
14	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 whispered	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 forget	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 forget	punct
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 fear	case
18	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 forget	obl
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 forget	nsubj
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 forget	aux
21	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 whispered	ccomp
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 forget	obj
23	before	before	ADP	_	25 end	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 end	det
25	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 forget	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 trial	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 trial	det
28	trial	trial	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 end	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 forget	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	21 forget	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	're in a quote	past	jurors = juror					tree rules
2	put down in a quote	gerund	jurors = juror not said here	jurors's names				vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent name=Goal
3	whisper speech: assert	past	the Gryphon		reply			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	forget in a quote	should	jurors = juror	creatures = creature		before the end of the trial	for fear	tree rules
5	name in a quote		jurors = juror					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.

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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