Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 35

The door led right into a large kitchen, which was full of smoke from one end to the other: the Duchess was sitting on a three-legged stool in the middle, nursing a baby; the cook was leaning over the fire, stirring a large cauldron which seemed to be full of soup.

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

This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, large kitchen, Duchess, cook), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 door	det
2	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 led	nsubj
3	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	right	right	ADV	_	8 kitchen	advmod
5	into	into	ADP	_	8 kitchen	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 kitchen	det
7	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 kitchen	amod
8	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 led	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 full	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 full	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 full	cop
12	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 kitchen	acl:relcl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 smoke	case
14	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 full	obl
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 end	case
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 end	nummod
17	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 led	obl
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 other	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 other	det
20	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 led	obl
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 sitting	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Duchess	det
23	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 sitting	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 sitting	aux
25	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 led	conj
26	on	on	ADP	_	31 stool	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 stool	det
28	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 legged	nummod
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 three	punct
30	legged	legged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 stool	amod
31	stool	stool	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sitting	obl
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 middle	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 middle	det
34	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sitting	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 nursing	punct
36	nursing	nurse	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 sitting	advcl
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 baby	det
38	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 nursing	obj
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 leaning	punct
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 cook	det
41	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 leaning	nsubj
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 leaning	aux
43	leaning	lean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 led	advcl
44	over	over	ADP	_	46 fire	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 fire	det
46	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 leaning	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 stirring	punct
48	stirring	stir	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	43 leaning	conj
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 cauldron	det
50	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 cauldron	amod
51	cauldron	cauldron	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 stirring	obj
52	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	53 seemed	nsubj
53	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 cauldron	acl:relcl
54	to	to	PART	_	56 full	mark
55	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	56 full	cop
56	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 seemed	xcomp
57	of	of	ADP	_	58 soup	case
58	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 full	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 led	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lead	past	the door		a large kitchen	from one end	to the other	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to other=Patient
2	is	past	a large kitchen				of smoke; full property	tree rules
3	sit	past · progressive	the Duchess		a legged stool		in the middle	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stool=Location
4	nurse	gerund	the Duchess not said here	a baby				vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Beneficiary
5	lean	past · progressive	the cook		the fire			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over fire=Location
6	stir	gerund	the cook not said here	a large cauldron				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus cauldron=Experiencer
7	seem	past	a large cauldron					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
8	is	to-infinitive	a large cauldron not said here				of soup; full property	tree rules

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.

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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