Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, sentence 38
(The jury all looked puzzled.)
What happens: puzzle · 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: 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 | _ | 6 puzzled | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 jury | det |
| 3 | jury | jury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 puzzled | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 6 puzzled | advmod |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 puzzled | aux:pass |
| 6 | puzzled | puzzle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 puzzled | punct |
| 8 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 puzzled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | puzzle | past · passive | the jury | all property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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