What does this use of "carpeted" mean?
Solution 1:
From NOAD:
carpet verb ( -peted , -peting ) [ trans. ] ... 2 Brit., informal reprimand severely.
Presumably this comes from the expression "calling [someone] on the carpet."
call someone on the carpet informal severely reprimand someone below one in authority : she might have called the accused person on the carpet. [ORIGIN: from carpet in the sense [table covering,] referring to ‘the carpet of the council table,’ before which one would be summoned for reprimand.]