--- title: «How doth the little crocodile» is a parody of Isaac Watts's poem «H… — Alice's word games: puns, parodies and nonsense · tree and pragmatics description: «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. 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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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:041-alice-s-word-games-puns-parodies-and-nonsense.lesson:12 # text = «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». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 041-alice-s-word-games-puns-parodies-and-nonsense.lesson # annotation = 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 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 2 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 3 doth doth ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 crocodile crocodile NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 7 » » PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 parody parody NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 Isaac Isaac PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 Watts Watts PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 's 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 poem poem NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 16 « « PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 17 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 18 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:advmod 18 doth doth ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:det 20 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:amod 21 busy busy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:amod 22 bee bee NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 » » NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 26 « « PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ _ 27 Twinkle twinkle NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 twinkle twinkle NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:amod 32 bat bat NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 » » NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 34 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 parody parody NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 « « PUNCT `` _ 39 punct _ _ 39 Twinkle twinkle NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 41 twinkle twinkle NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 conj _ _ 42 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 43 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=45:amod 44 star star NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 compound _ _ 45 » » NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Alice's word games: puns, parodies and…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/41-alice-s-word-games-puns-parodies-and-nonsense/11/) - next →: [Alice's word games: puns, parodies and…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/41-alice-s-word-games-puns-parodies-and-nonsense/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/41-alice-s-word-games-puns-parodies-and-nonsense/)