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title: “Write that down,” the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly w… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: “Write that down,” the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence. Who acts: jury, King. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tar
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 38

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“Write that down,” the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence.

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**Who acts:** jury, King · **What happens:** write down, say, add up, reduce · **To what, where:** that, jury, three dates, slates, King, answer · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (jury, King), 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:pg11:12:38
# text = “Write that down,” the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Write	write	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	obj	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	jury	jury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	jury	jury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
19	down	down	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
21	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	dates	date	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	slates	slate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
29	added	add	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	up	up	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	reduced	reduce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	shillings	shilling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	pence	pence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write down** *in a quote* | imperative | the jury *= jury* *not said here* | that |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent that=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the King |  | the jury |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to jury=Recipient |
| 3 | **write down** | past | the jury | all three dates |  | King's slates |  | eagerly *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent date=Theme on slate=Destination |
| 4 | **add up** *speech: assert* | past | the jury *not said here* | King |  |  | then |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 5 | **reduce** | past | the King *not said here* | the answer |  |  |  | to shillings and pence *goal* | vn limit-76 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer answer=Patient to shilling=Goal |

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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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