Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, sentence 62

The jury all wrote down on their slates, “_She_ doesn’t believe there’s an atom of meaning in it,” but none of them attempted to explain the paper.

Who acts: jury, piece, none, paper · What happens: write down, not believe, attempt, explain · To what, where: slates · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (jury, piece, none, paper), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 jury	det
2	jury	jury	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wrote	nsubj
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 wrote	advmod
4	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 wrote	compound:prt
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 slates	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 slates	nmod:poss
8	slates	slate	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wrote	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 believe	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 believe	punct
11	_	_	PUNCT	_	12 She	punct
12	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 believe	nsubj
13	_	_	PUNCT	_	12 She	punct
14	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 believe	aux
15	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 believe	advmod
16	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wrote	ccomp
17	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 ’s	expl
18	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 believe	ccomp
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 atom	det
20	atom	atom	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ’s	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 meaning	case
22	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 atom	nmod
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 meaning	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 believe	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 believe	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 attempted	cc
28	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	31 attempted	nsubj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 none	nmod
31	attempted	attempt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wrote	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 explain	mark
33	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 attempted	xcomp
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 paper	det
35	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 explain	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wrote	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	write down	past	the jury	verses's slates	all property	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not believe in a quote	present · do-support	piece			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	attempt	past	none			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	explain speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	the paper			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «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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