Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, sentence 6

As soon as the jury had a little recovered from the shock of being upset, and their slates and pencils had been found and handed back to them, they set to work very diligently to write out a history of the accident, all except the Lizard, who seemed too much overcome to do anything but sit with its mouth open, gazing up into the roof of the court.

Who acts: slates, Lizard · What happens: recover, be, find, hand back, set, work · To what, where: shock, slates, history, anything

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 (slates, Lizard), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 recovered	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 had	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 jury	det
5	jury	jury	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 recovered	aux
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 little	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 had	obj
9	recovered	recover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 shock	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 shock	det
12	shock	shock	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 recovered	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 upset	case
14	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 upset	cop
15	upset	upset	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 shock	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 found	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 found	cc
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 slates	nmod:poss
19	slates	slate	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 found	nsubj:pass
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 pencils	cc
21	pencils	pencil	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 slates	conj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 found	aux
23	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 found	aux:pass
24	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 recovered	parataxis
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 handed	cc
26	handed	hand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 found	conj
27	back	back	ADV	_	26 handed	advmod
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 them	case
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 handed	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 set	punct
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 set	nsubj
32	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 recovered	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 work	mark
34	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 set	xcomp
35	very	very	ADV	_	36 diligently	advmod
36	diligently	diligently	ADV	_	34 work	advmod
37	to	to	PART	_	38 write	mark
38	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 work	advcl
39	out	out	ADP	_	38 write	compound:prt
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 history	det
41	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 write	obj
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 accident	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 accident	det
44	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 history	nmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 Lizard	punct
46	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	49 Lizard	det
47	except	except	ADP	_	49 Lizard	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 Lizard	det
49	Lizard	Lizard	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 set	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 seemed	punct
51	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	52 seemed	nsubj
52	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 Lizard	acl:relcl
53	too	too	ADV	_	54 much	advmod
54	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 overcome	amod
55	overcome	overcome	X	_	52 seemed	xcomp
56	to	to	PART	_	57 do	mark
57	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 seemed	xcomp
58	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	57 do	obj
59	but	but	CCONJ	_	60 sit	cc
60	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	57 do	conj
61	with	with	ADP	_	63 mouth	case
62	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	63 mouth	nmod:poss
63	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 sit	obl
64	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 sit	advcl
65	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 gazing	punct
66	gazing	gaze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	60 sit	advcl
67	up	up	ADV	_	66 gazing	advmod
68	into	into	ADP	_	70 roof	case
69	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	70 roof	det
70	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 gazing	obl
71	of	of	ADP	_	73 court	case
72	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	73 court	det
73	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	70 roof	nmod
74	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 recovered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	recover	past · perfect				the shock	soon property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from shock=Source
2	is	gerund					upset property	tree rules
3	find	past · perfect · passive		heads's slates and pencils				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
4	hand back	participle			slates = slate			vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to they=Destination
5	set	present	slates = slate				except all Lizard	tree rules
6	work	to-infinitive	slates = slate not said here				diligently property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	write out	to-infinitive	slates = slate not said here	a history of the accident				vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent history=Theme
8	seem	past	all Lizard					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
9	do	to-infinitive	all Lizard not said here	anything				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality
10	sit	infinitive	all Lizard not said here				with Lizard's mouth	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
11	gaze up	gerund	all Lizard not said here				into the roof of the court	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into roof=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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