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title: The door led right into a large kitchen, which was full of smoke fro… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: 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, Duc
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 35

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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.

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**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

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg11:7:35
# text = 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.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	right	right	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
28	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	legged	legged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	stool	stool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	nursing	nurse	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	43	punct	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
42	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	leaning	lean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
44	over	over	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
48	stirring	stir	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	43	conj	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
50	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	cauldron	cauldron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	_
52	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	53	nsubj	_	_
53	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	acl:relcl	_	_
54	to	to	PART	TO	_	56	mark	_	_
55	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	56	cop	_	_
56	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	xcomp	_	_
57	of	of	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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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**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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