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title: The kitchen is full of smoke; the Duchess sits on a three-legged sto… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The foo… · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The footmen and the Duchess's kitchen» of the b
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The footmen and the Duchess's kitchen, sentence 18

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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.

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

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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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:011-alice-ch6-part1-pig-and-pepper.lesson:18
# text = 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.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 011-alice-ch6-part1-pig-and-pepper.lesson
# annotation = 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
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
10	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nummod
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	_
15	legged	leg	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
16	stool	stool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
17	nursing	nurse	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:acl
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:det
23	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:compound
24	stirs	stir	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	cauldron	cauldron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	32	punct	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	cooking	cooking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
33	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	32	punct	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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