Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The footmen and the Duchess's kitchen, sentence 3
Alice gives up on him and walks straight in, into a smoky kitchen where the air is so full of pepper that everyone sneezes: the Duchess, nursing a howling baby, a cook stirring soup, and a big cat grinning from ear to ear.
Who acts: Alice, air, everyone, Duchess, big cat · What happens: give up, walk, be, sneeze, nurse, howl · To what, where: Duchess, smoky kitchen, howling baby, soup, ear
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 (Alice, air, everyone, Duchess), 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 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 gives | nsubj |
| 2 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 gives | compound:prt |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gives | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 walks | cc |
| 7 | walks | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 gives | conj |
| 8 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 9 in | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADV | _ | 7 walks | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 kitchen | punct |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 kitchen | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 kitchen | det |
| 13 | smoky | smoky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 kitchen | amod |
| 14 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 walks | obl |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 full | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 air | det |
| 17 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 full | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 full | cop |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 full | advmod |
| 20 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 kitchen | acl:relcl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 pepper | case |
| 22 | pepper | pepper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 full | obl |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 sneezes | mark |
| 24 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 25 sneezes | nsubj |
| 25 | sneezes | sneeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 full | advcl |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 Duchess | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Duchess | det |
| 28 | Duchess | duchess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 walks | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 nursing | punct |
| 30 | nursing | nurse | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 Duchess | acl |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 baby | det |
| 32 | howling | howl | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 baby | amod |
| 33 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 nursing | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 cook | punct |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 cook | det |
| 36 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 Duchess | conj |
| 37 | stirring | stir | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 Duchess | acl |
| 38 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 stirring | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 grinning | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 grinning | cc |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 cat | det |
| 42 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 cat | amod |
| 43 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 grinning | nsubj |
| 44 | grinning | grin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 gives | parataxis |
| 45 | from | from | ADP | _ | 46 ear | case |
| 46 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 grinning | obl |
| 47 | to | to | ADP | _ | 48 ear | case |
| 48 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 grinning | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gives | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give up | present | Alice | on footman | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | walk | present | Alice not said here | the Duchess and a cook | into a smoky kitchen result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into kitchen=Result | |||
| 3 | is | present | the air | of pepper; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | sneeze | present | everyone | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | nurse | gerund | the Duchess and a cook not said here | a howling baby | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Beneficiary | ||||
| 6 | howl | gerund | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | stir | gerund | the Duchess and a cook not said here | soup | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus soup=Experiencer | ||||
| 8 | grin | gerund | a big cat | ear | to ear | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to ear=Recipient |
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:3.
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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1. 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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