Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 83

Alice thought to herself, “I don’t see how he can _ever_ finish, if he doesn’t begin.”

Who acts: Alice, Pray · What happens: think, not see, _, not begin · To what, where: Alice, finish · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alice, Pray), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 herself	case
4	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 thought	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 see	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 see	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 see	nsubj
8	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 see	aux
9	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 see	advmod
10	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 thought	ccomp
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 _	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 _	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 _	aux
14	_	_	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 see	ccomp
15	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	14 _	advmod
16	_	_	PUNCT	_	17 finish	punct
17	finish	finish	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 _	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 begin	punct
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 begin	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 begin	nsubj
21	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 begin	aux
22	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 begin	advmod
23	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 _	advcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 see	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Alice		Alice		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not see in a quote	present · do-support	Alice				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	_ in a quote	can	Pray	finish		ever	tree rules
4	not begin a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present · do-support	Pray				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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.

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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