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title: However, the Multiplication Table doesn’t signify: let’s try Geograp… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: However, the Multiplication Table doesn’t signify: let’s try Geography. Who acts: Multiplication Table, ’s. 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 37

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However, the Multiplication Table doesn’t signify: let’s try Geography.

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**Who acts:** Multiplication Table, ’s · **What happens:** not signify, let, try · **To what, where:** ’s, Geography

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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 (Multiplication Table, ’s), 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:pg11:3:37
# text = However, the Multiplication Table doesn’t signify: let’s try Geography.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Multiplication	Multiplication	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Table	Table	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	signify	signify	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’s	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	Geography	Geography	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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