Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 40

The only things in the kitchen that did not sneeze, were the cook, and a large cat which was sitting on the hearth and grinning from ear to ear.

Who acts: kitchen, only things, large cat · What happens: not sneeze, be, sit, grin · To what, where: cook, hearth, ear

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 (kitchen, only things, large cat), 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	3 things	det
2	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 things	amod
3	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 cook	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 kitchen	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 kitchen	det
6	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 things	nmod
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 sneeze	nsubj
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sneeze	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 sneeze	advmod
10	sneeze	sneeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 kitchen	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 things	punct
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 cook	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cook	det
14	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 cat	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 cat	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 cat	det
18	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 cat	amod
19	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cook	appos
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 sitting	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 sitting	aux
22	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 cat	acl:relcl
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 hearth	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 hearth	det
25	hearth	hearth	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sitting	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 grinning	cc
27	grinning	grin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 sitting	conj
28	from	from	ADP	_	29 ear	case
29	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 grinning	obl
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 ear	case
31	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 grinning	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 cook	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not sneeze	past · do-support	the kitchen					vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	the only things in the kitchen	the cook				tree rules
3	sit	past · progressive	a large cat			the hearth		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hearth=Location
4	grin	gerund	a large cat not said here		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.

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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