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title: Alice said nothing; she had sat down with her face in her hands, won… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 106

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

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

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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.

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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:pg11:11:106
# text = Alice said nothing; she had sat down with her face in her hands, wondering if anything would _ever_ happen in a natural way again.
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	sat	sit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	ccomp	_	_
8	down	down	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	wondering	wonder	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	parataxis	_	_
17	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	20	nsubj	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	_	_	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	23	punct	_	_
23	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	again	again	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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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