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title: “It’s a pun!” the King added in an offended tone, and everybody laug… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: “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. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evid
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, sentence 78

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“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.

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**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

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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.

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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:pg11:13:78
# text = “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.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	pun	pun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	added	add	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	offended	offended	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	tone	tone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	18	nsubj	_	_
18	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	jury	jury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	consider	consider	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	verdict	verdict	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
34	about	about	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	twentieth	twentieth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	ccomp	_	_
38	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	39	det	_	_
39	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | 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 |

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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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