--- title: Alice sits with her face in her hands, wondering if anything will ev… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2: The Lobs… · tree and pragmatics description: Alice sits with her face in her hands, wondering if anything will ever happen in a natural way again. Who acts: Alice, anything. 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2/8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2/) / 8 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:020-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2.lesson:8 # text = Alice sits with her face in her hands, wondering if anything will ever happen in a natural way again. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 020-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2.lesson # annotation = 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 1 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 sits sit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 with with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 wondering wonder VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 11 if if SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 12 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 15 nsubj _ _ 13 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 15 advmod _ _ 15 happen happen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 natural natural ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 again again ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2/6/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2/)