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title: She did it so quickly that the poor little juror (it was Bill, the L… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: She did it so quickly that the poor little juror (it was Bill, the Lizard) could not make out at all what had become of it; so, after hunting all about for it, he was obliged to write with one finger for the rest of the day; and this was of very little use, as it left no mark on the slate. Who acts:
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 21

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She did it so quickly that the poor little juror (it was Bill, the Lizard) could not make out at all what had become of it; so, after hunting all about for it, he was obliged to write with one finger for the rest of the day; and this was of very little use, as it left no mark on the slate.

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**Who acts:** Alice, opportunity, poor little juror, this · **What happens:** do, be, not make out, become, hunt, oblige · **To what, where:** opportunity, Bill, all, mark, slate

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This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alice, opportunity, poor little juror, this), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg11:12:21
# text = She did it so quickly that the poor little juror (it was Bill, the Lizard) could not make out at all what had become of it; so, after hunting all about for it, he was obliged to write with one finger for the rest of the day; and this was of very little use, as it left no mark on the slate.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	juror	juror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	Bill	Bill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Lizard	Lizard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
19	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	obl	_	_
25	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	27	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
31	so	so	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
33	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
34	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	42	advcl	_	_
35	all	all	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	about	about	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
40	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
41	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux:pass	_	_
42	obliged	oblige	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
44	write	write	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	advcl	_	_
45	with	with	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	47	nummod	_	_
47	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
48	for	for	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	61	punct	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
56	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	61	nsubj	_	_
57	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	61	cop	_	_
58	of	of	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
59	very	very	ADV	RB	_	60	advmod	_	_
60	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	61	amod	_	_
61	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	65	punct	_	_
63	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	65	mark	_	_
64	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	65	nsubj	_	_
65	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	61	acl:relcl	_	_
66	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	67	det	_	_
67	mark	mark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	65	obj	_	_
68	on	on	ADP	IN	_	70	case	_	_
69	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	70	det	_	_
70	slate	slate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	65	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Alice | opportunity |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is a** | past | opportunity | Bill |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **make out** | could | the poor little juror |  |  | all |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **become** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | of opportunity | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **hunt** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for opportunity; about *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for it=Theme |
| 6 | **oblige** | past · passive |  | Bill |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 7 | **write** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with one finger; for the rest of the day | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for rest=Beneficiary |
| 8 | **is** | past | this |  |  |  |  | of little use | tree rules |
| 9 | **leave** | past | opportunity | no mark |  | the slate |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mark=Theme on slate=Location |

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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.

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**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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