Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2: The Lobster Quadrille (poems gone wrong and Beautiful Soup), sentence 8
Alice sits with her face in her hands, wondering if anything will ever happen in a natural way again.
Who acts: Alice, anything · What happens: sit, wonder, happen · To what, where: hands, natural way
This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2: The Lobster Quadrille (poems gone wrong and Beautiful Soup)» 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, anything), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 sits | nsubj |
| 2 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 face | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 face | nmod:poss |
| 5 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sits | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 hands | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hands | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sits | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wondering | punct |
| 10 | wondering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 sits | advcl |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 happen | mark |
| 12 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 happen | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 happen | aux |
| 14 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 15 happen | advmod |
| 15 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 wondering | advcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 way | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 way | det |
| 18 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 way | amod |
| 19 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 happen | obl |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 15 happen | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sits | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | present | Alice | Alice's hands | with Alice's face | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hand=Location | |||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | Alice not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | happen a condition, not said to happen | future | anything | a natural way | ever; again | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in way=Location |
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.
Licence: CC 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:020-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2.lesson:8.
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 ×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.
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