Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 21

She did it so quickly that the poor little juror (it was Bill, the Lizard) could not make out at all what had become of it; so, after hunting all about for it, he was obliged to write with one finger for the rest of the day; and this was of very little use, as it left no mark on the slate.

Who acts: Alice, opportunity, poor little juror, this · What happens: do, be, not make out, become, hunt, oblige · To what, where: opportunity, Bill, all, mark, slate

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, opportunity, poor little juror, this), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 did	obj
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 quickly	advmod
5	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	2 did	advmod
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 make	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 juror	det
8	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 juror	amod
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 juror	amod
10	juror	juror	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 make	nsubj
11	(	(	PUNCT	_	14 Bill	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 Bill	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 Bill	cop
14	Bill	Bill	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 juror	appos
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Lizard	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Lizard	det
17	Lizard	Lizard	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Bill	appos
18	)	)	PUNCT	_	14 Bill	punct
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 make	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 make	advmod
21	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 did	advcl
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 make	compound:prt
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 all	case
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 make	obl
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 become	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 become	aux
27	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 all	acl:relcl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 become	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 obliged	punct
31	so	so	ADV	_	42 obliged	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 so	punct
33	after	after	SCONJ	_	34 hunting	mark
34	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	42 obliged	advcl
35	all	all	ADV	_	36 about	advmod
36	about	about	ADV	_	34 hunting	advmod
37	for	for	ADP	_	38 it	case
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 hunting	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 hunting	punct
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 obliged	nsubj
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 obliged	aux:pass
42	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 did	conj
43	to	to	PART	_	44 write	mark
44	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 obliged	advcl
45	with	with	ADP	_	47 finger	case
46	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	47 finger	nummod
47	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 write	obl
48	for	for	ADP	_	50 rest	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 rest	det
50	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 write	obl
51	of	of	ADP	_	53 day	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 day	det
53	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 rest	nmod
54	;	;	PUNCT	_	61 use	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 use	cc
56	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	61 use	nsubj
57	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	61 use	cop
58	of	of	ADP	_	61 use	case
59	very	very	ADV	_	60 little	advmod
60	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 use	amod
61	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	parataxis
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 left	punct
63	as	as	SCONJ	_	65 left	mark
64	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	65 left	nsubj
65	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	61 use	acl:relcl
66	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	67 mark	det
67	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 left	obj
68	on	on	ADP	_	70 slate	case
69	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	70 slate	det
70	slate	slate	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 left	obl
71	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	Alice	opportunity		quickly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
2	is a	past	opportunity	Bill			tree rules
3	not make out	could	the poor little juror		all		vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
4	become	past · perfect				of opportunity	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	hunt	gerund				for opportunity; about property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for it=Theme
6	oblige	past · passive		Bill			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
7	write	to-infinitive				with one finger; for the rest of the day	vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for rest=Beneficiary
8	is	past	this			of little use	tree rules
9	leave	past	opportunity	no mark	the slate		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mark=Theme on slate=Location

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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