Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 37
However, the Multiplication Table doesn’t signify: let’s try Geography.
Who acts: Multiplication Table, ’s · What happens: not signify, let, try · To what, where: ’s, Geography
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 (Multiplication Table, ’s), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 8 signify | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Table | det |
| 4 | Multiplication | Multiplication | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Table | compound |
| 5 | Table | Table | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 signify | nsubj |
| 6 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 signify | aux |
| 7 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 signify | advmod |
| 8 | signify | signify | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 let | punct |
| 10 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 signify | conj |
| 11 | ’s | we | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 let | obj |
| 12 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 let | xcomp |
| 13 | Geography | Geography | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 try | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 signify | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not signify | present · do-support | the Multiplication Table | however property | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | the Multiplication Table not said here | ’s | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | try | infinitive | ’s not said here | Geography | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent geography=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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