Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 50

While she was trying to fix on one, the cook took the cauldron of soup off the fire, and at once set to work throwing everything within her reach at the Duchess and the baby—the fire-irons came first; then followed a shower of saucepans, plates, and dishes.

Who acts: Alice, cook, fire irons · What happens: try, fix, take, set, work, throw · To what, where: cauldron, fire, everything, baby, shower

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 (Alice, cook, fire irons), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	4 trying	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 trying	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 trying	aux
4	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 took	advcl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 fix	mark
6	fix	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 trying	xcomp
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 one	case
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 fix	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 trying	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cook	det
11	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 took	nsubj
12	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cauldron	det
14	cauldron	cauldron	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 took	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 soup	case
16	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cauldron	nmod
17	off	off	ADP	_	19 fire	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 fire	det
19	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 took	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 set	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 set	cc
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 once	case
23	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	24 set	obl
24	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 took	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 work	mark
26	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 set	xcomp
27	throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 work	advcl
28	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	27 throwing	obj
29	within	within	ADP	_	31 reach	case
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 reach	nmod:poss
31	reach	reach	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 throwing	obl
32	at	at	ADP	_	34 Duchess	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Duchess	det
34	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 throwing	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 baby	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 baby	det
37	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 Duchess	conj
38	—	-	PUNCT	_	43 came	punct
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 irons	det
40	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 irons	compound
41	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 fire	punct
42	irons	iron	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 came	nsubj
43	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 baby	acl:relcl
44	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	43 came	advmod
45	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 followed	punct
46	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	47 followed	advmod
47	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 took	conj
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 shower	det
49	shower	shower	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 followed	obj
50	of	of	ADP	_	51 saucepans	case
51	saucepans	saucepan	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 shower	nmod
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 plates	punct
53	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 saucepans	conj
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 dishes	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 dishes	cc
56	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 followed	parataxis
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past · progressive	Alice					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	fix not said to happen	to-infinitive	Alice not said here				on one	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	take	past	the cook	the cauldron of soup	the fire			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent cauldron=Theme off fire=Initial_Location
4	set	participle	the cook not said here					tree rules
5	work	to-infinitive	the cook not said here					vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	throw	gerund	the cook not said here	everything			within Alice's reach; at the Duchess and the baby	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent everything=Theme at duchess=Destination
7	come	past	the fire irons	the baby not said here			first property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location baby=Theme
8	follow	past	the cook not said here	a shower of saucepans and plates		then		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shower=Theme

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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