Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, sentence 78

“It’s a pun!” the King added in an offended tone, and everybody laughed, “Let the jury consider their verdict,” the King said, for about the twentieth time that day.

Who acts: Silence, King, everybody, jury · What happens: be, add, laugh, let, consider, say · To what, where: pun, offended tone, jury, verdict · 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 (Silence, King, everybody, jury), 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	_	5 pun	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pun	nsubj
3	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 pun	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pun	det
5	pun	pun	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 added	obl
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 pun	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 pun	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 King	det
9	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 added	nsubj
10	added	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 tone	case
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 tone	det
13	offended	offended	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 tone	amod
14	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 added	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 laughed	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 laughed	cc
17	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	18 laughed	nsubj
18	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 added	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Let	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 Let	punct
21	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 laughed	ccomp
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 jury	det
23	jury	jury	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Let	obj
24	consider	consider	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 Let	xcomp
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 verdict	nmod:poss
26	verdict	verdict	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 consider	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 said	punct
28	”	"	PUNCT	_	31 said	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 King	det
30	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 said	nsubj
31	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 laughed	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 time	punct
33	for	for	ADP	_	37 time	case
34	about	about	ADV	_	37 time	advmod
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 time	det
36	twentieth	twentieth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 time	amod
37	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 said	ccomp
38	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	39 day	det
39	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 time	nmod:unmarked
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 added	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	Silence	a pun		tree rules
2	add speech: express	past	the King		a offended tone	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	laugh	past	everybody			tree rules
4	let in a quote	infinitive	everybody not said here	the jury		tree rules
5	consider in a quote	infinitive	the jury not said here	slates's verdict		vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent verdict=Attribute
6	say speech: assert	past	the King			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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