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title: The only things in the kitchen that did not sneeze, were the cook, a… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, with its dependen
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 40

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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.

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

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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 (kitchen, only things, large cat), 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:pg11:7:40
# text = 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.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
8	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	sneeze	sneeze	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	hearth	hearth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	grinning	grin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	conj	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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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