Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 9

However, “jury-men” would have done just as well.

Who acts: jury men · What happens: do

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 men), 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	However	however	ADV	_	10 done	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 men	punct
4	jury	jury	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 men	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 jury	punct
6	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 done	nsubj
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 men	punct
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 done	aux
9	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 done	aux
10	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 as	advmod
12	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	10 done	advmod
13	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 as	fixed
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	would · perfect	jury men					however property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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