Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 38

“Write that down,” the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence.

Who acts: jury, King · What happens: write down, say, add up, reduce · To what, where: that, jury, three dates, slates, King, answer · 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 (jury, King), 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	_	2 Write	punct
2	Write	write	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 Write	obj
4	down	down	ADP	_	2 Write	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Write	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Write	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 King	det
8	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Write	parataxis
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 jury	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 jury	det
12	jury	jury	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wrote	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 wrote	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 jury	det
16	jury	jury	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wrote	nsubj
17	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	_	18 wrote	advmod
18	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	parataxis
19	down	down	ADP	_	18 wrote	compound:prt
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 dates	det
21	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 dates	nummod
22	dates	date	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 wrote	obj
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 slates	case
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 slates	nmod:poss
25	slates	slate	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 dates	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 added	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 added	cc
28	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 added	advmod
29	added	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 wrote	conj
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 added	obj
31	up	up	ADP	_	29 added	compound:prt
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 reduced	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 reduced	cc
34	reduced	reduce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 answer	det
36	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 reduced	obj
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 shillings	case
38	shillings	shilling	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 reduced	obl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 pence	cc
40	pence	pence	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 shillings	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Write	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write down in a quote	imperative	the jury = jury not said here	that					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent that=Recipient clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past	the King		the jury				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to jury=Recipient
3	write down	past	the jury	all three dates		King's slates		eagerly property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent date=Theme on slate=Destination
4	add up speech: assert	past	the jury not said here	King			then		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
5	reduce	past	the King not said here	the answer				to shillings and pence goal	vn limit-76 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer answer=Patient to shilling=Goal

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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