Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, sentence 16

Some of the jury wrote it down “important,” and some “unimportant.”

Who acts: Some · What happens: write down · To what, where: jury

This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Some), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 wrote	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 jury	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 jury	det
4	jury	jury	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Some	nmod
5	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wrote	obj
7	down	down	ADP	_	5 wrote	compound:prt
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 important	punct
9	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wrote	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 important	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 important	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 unimportant	cc
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	15 unimportant	nsubj
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 unimportant	punct
15	unimportant	unimportant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 important	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 important	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 important	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write down	past	Some	jury					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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