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title: Alice gives up on him and walks straight in, into a smoky kitchen wh… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The foo… · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in W
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The footmen and the Duchess's kitchen, sentence 3

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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.

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**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

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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 (Alice, air, everyone, Duchess), 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:3
# text = 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.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	walks	walk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	smoky	smoky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
15	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	20	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:advcl:relcl
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	pepper	pepper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	25	nsubj	_	_
25	sneezes	sneeze	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
26	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Duchess	duchess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	nursing	nurse	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	acl	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	howling	howl	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	amod	_	_
33	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
37	stirring	stir	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	acl	_	_
38	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
44	grinning	grin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
45	from	from	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
47	to	to	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=48:case|HaikuPos=ADP:TO:_
48	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **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 |

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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: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.

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

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