Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 35
Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is—oh dear!
Who acts: you, me, four times · What happens: let, see, be · To what, where: me, five twelve, thirteen
This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, me, four times), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 twelve | punct |
| 5 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 times | nummod |
| 6 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 twelve | nsubj |
| 7 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 twelve | compound |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 twelve | cop |
| 9 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Let | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 thirteen | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 thirteen | cc |
| 12 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 times | nummod |
| 13 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 thirteen | nsubj |
| 14 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 thirteen | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 thirteen | cop |
| 16 | thirteen | thirteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 twelve | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 is | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 is | cc |
| 19 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 times | nummod |
| 20 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 is | obl |
| 21 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 times | flat |
| 22 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | conj |
| 23 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 dear | punct |
| 24 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 25 dear | discourse |
| 25 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Let | parataxis |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | infinitive | me not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | four times | five twelve | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | four times | thirteen | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | present | you not said here | time | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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