Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The footmen and the Duchess's kitchen, sentence 18

The kitchen is full of smoke; the Duchess sits on a three-legged stool nursing a baby, and the cook stirs a large cauldron (a big cooking pot) of soup.

Who acts: kitchen, Duchess, cook · What happens: be, sit, nurse, stir · To what, where: legged stool, baby, large cauldron

This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The footmen and the Duchess's kitchen» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kitchen, Duchess, cook), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 kitchen	det
2	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 full	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 full	cop
4	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 smoke	case
6	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 full	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 sits	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Duchess	det
9	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 sits	nsubj
10	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 full	parataxis
11	on	on	ADP	_	16 stool	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 stool	det
13	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 legged	nummod
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 three	punct
15	legged	leg	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 stool	amod
16	stool	stool	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sits	obl
17	nursing	nurse	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 sits	advcl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 baby	det
19	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 nursing	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 stirs	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 stirs	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 cook	det
23	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stirs	nsubj
24	stirs	stir	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 sits	conj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 cauldron	det
26	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 cauldron	amod
27	cauldron	cauldron	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stirs	obj
28	(	(	PUNCT	_	32 pot	punct
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 pot	det
30	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 pot	amod
31	cooking	cooking	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 pot	compound
32	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cauldron	appos
33	)	)	PUNCT	_	32 pot	punct
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 soup	case
35	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cauldron	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 full	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the kitchen			of smoke; full property	tree rules
2	sit	present	the Duchess		a legged stool		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stool=Location
3	nurse	gerund	the Duchess not said here	a baby			vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Beneficiary
4	stir	present	the cook	a large cauldron of soup			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus cauldron=Experiencer

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.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:books:011-alice-ch6-part1-pig-and-pepper.lesson:18.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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