Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 106

Alice said nothing; she had sat down with her face in her hands, wondering if anything would _ever_ happen in a natural way again.

Who acts: Alice, anything · What happens: say, sit down, wonder, _, happen · To what, where: nothing, hands, natural way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille. 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.

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 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 said	obj
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 sat	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sat	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sat	aux
7	sat	sit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 said	ccomp
8	down	down	ADP	_	7 sat	compound:prt
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 face	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 face	nmod:poss
11	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sat	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 hands	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 hands	nmod:poss
14	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sat	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wondering	punct
16	wondering	wonder	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 sat	parataxis
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 _	mark
18	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	20 _	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 _	aux
20	_	_	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 wondering	ccomp
21	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	20 _	advmod
22	_	_	PUNCT	_	23 happen	punct
23	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 _	conj
24	in	in	ADP	_	27 way	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 way	det
26	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 way	amod
27	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 happen	obl
28	again	again	ADV	_	23 happen	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Alice	nothing				tree rules
2	sit down	past · perfect	Alice		Alice's hands		with Alice's face	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hand=Location
3	wonder speech: ask	gerund						vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	_ a condition, not said to happen	would	anything			ever		tree rules
5	happen	infinitive	anything not said here		a natural way	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.

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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