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title: Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirtee… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 35

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Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is—oh dear!

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**Who acts:** you, me, four times · **What happens:** let, see, be · **To what, where:** me, five twelve, thirteen

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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.

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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:pg11:3:35
# text = Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is—oh dear!
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
5	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
7	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	compound	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
14	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	thirteen	thirteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
21	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	flat	_	_
22	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	25	discourse	_	_
25	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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