Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 17

Alice could see, as well as if she were looking over their shoulders, that all the jurors were writing down “stupid things!” on their slates, and she could even make out that one of them didn’t know how to spell “stupid,” and that he had to ask his neighbour to tell him.

Who acts: Alice, jurors, one, Rabbit, neighbour · What happens: see, look, write down, make out, not know, spell · To what, where: stupid things, slates, stupid, Rabbit · 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 (Alice, jurors, one, Rabbit), 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	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 see	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 see	aux
3	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 looking	punct
5	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	11 looking	cc
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 as	fixed
7	as	as	ADP	_	5 as	fixed
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 looking	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 looking	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 looking	aux
11	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 see	conj
12	over	over	ADP	_	14 shoulders	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 shoulders	nmod:poss
14	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 looking	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 writing	punct
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 writing	mark
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 jurors	det:predet
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 jurors	det
19	jurors	juror	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 writing	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 writing	aux
21	writing	write	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 looking	conj
22	down	down	ADP	_	21 writing	compound:prt
23	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 things	punct
24	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 things	amod
25	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 writing	obj
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	25 things	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	25 things	punct
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 slates	case
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 slates	nmod:poss
30	slates	slate	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 writing	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 make	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 make	cc
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 make	nsubj
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 make	aux
35	even	even	ADV	_	36 make	advmod
36	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 see	conj
37	out	out	ADP	_	36 make	compound:prt
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	44 know	mark
39	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	44 know	nsubj
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 them	case
41	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 one	nmod
42	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 know	aux
43	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	44 know	advmod
44	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 make	advcl
45	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	47 spell	advmod
46	to	to	PART	_	47 spell	mark
47	spell	spell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 know	xcomp
48	“	"	PUNCT	_	49 stupid	punct
49	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 spell	obj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 stupid	punct
51	”	"	PUNCT	_	49 stupid	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 had	cc
53	that	that	SCONJ	_	55 had	mark
54	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 had	nsubj
55	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 stupid	conj
56	to	to	PART	_	57 ask	mark
57	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 had	xcomp
58	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	59 neighbour	nmod:poss
59	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 ask	obj
60	to	to	PART	_	61 tell	mark
61	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	57 ask	xcomp
62	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 tell	iobj
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	could	Alice					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	look a condition, not said to happen	past · progressive	Alice				over spectacles's shoulders	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over shoulder=Theme
3	write down	past · progressive	all jurors	stupid things		jurors's slates		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thing=Theme on slate=Destination
4	make out	could	Alice					vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
5	not know	past · do-support	one of jurors					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	spell	to-infinitive	one of jurors not said here	stupid				vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent stupid=Theme
7	have	past	Rabbit					tree rules
8	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	Rabbit's neighbour					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	Rabbit's neighbour not said here		Rabbit			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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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