Alice's word games: puns, parodies and nonsense, sentence 12

«How doth the little crocodile» is a parody of Isaac Watts's poem «How doth the little busy bee», and «Twinkle, twinkle, little bat» is a parody of «Twinkle, twinkle, little star».

Who acts: little crocodile, Twinkle · What happens: be · To what, where: parody

This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice's word games: puns, parodies and nonsense» of the language course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little crocodile, Twinkle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 parody	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 doth	advmod
3	doth	doth	ADV	_	6 crocodile	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 crocodile	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 crocodile	amod
6	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 parody	nsubj
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 crocodile	punct
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 parody	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 parody	det
10	parody	parody	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Isaac	case
12	Isaac	Isaac	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Watts	compound
13	Watts	Watts	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 poem	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 Watts	case
15	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 parody	nmod
16	«	«	PUNCT	_	23 »	punct
17	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 doth	advmod
18	doth	doth	ADV	_	23 »	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 bee	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 bee	amod
21	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 bee	amod
22	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 »	compound
23	»	»	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 poem	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 parody	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 parody	cc
26	«	«	PUNCT	_	27 Twinkle	punct
27	Twinkle	twinkle	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 parody	nsubj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 twinkle	punct
29	twinkle	twinkle	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 Twinkle	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 »	punct
31	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 bat	amod
32	bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 »	compound
33	»	»	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 Twinkle	conj
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 parody	cop
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 parody	det
36	parody	parody	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 parody	conj
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 Twinkle	case
38	«	«	PUNCT	_	39 Twinkle	punct
39	Twinkle	twinkle	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 parody	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 twinkle	punct
41	twinkle	twinkle	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 Twinkle	conj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 »	punct
43	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 star	amod
44	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 »	compound
45	»	»	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 »	conj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 parody	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the little crocodile	a parody and a parody				Isaac Watts's poem bee » and star » nmod	tree rules
2	is a	present	Twinkle and twinkle and bat »	a parody				of Twinkle and twinkle	tree rules

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.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:language:041-alice-s-word-games-puns-parodies-and-nonsense.lesson:12.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×6. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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