--- title: «You are old, Father William» is a parody of a serious poem by Rober… — Alice's word games: puns, parodies and nonsense · tree and pragmatics description: «You are old, Father William» is a parody of a serious poem by Robert Southey, in which an old man gives wise advice; in Carroll's version the old man stands on his head and turns back-somersaults. Who acts: You, old man. 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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 (You, old man), 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:13 # text = «You are old, Father William» is a parody of a serious poem by Robert Southey, in which an old man gives wise advice; in Carroll's version the old man stands on his head and turns back-somersaults. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 2 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 csubj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 Father Father PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 vocative _ _ 7 William William PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 flat _ _ 8 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 parody parody NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 serious serious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 poem poem NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 16 by by ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 Robert Robert PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 18 Southey Southey PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 flat _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 obl _ _ 22 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 26 wise wise ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 advice advice NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 Carroll Carroll PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nmod:poss _ _ 31 's 's PART POS _ 30 case _ _ 32 version version NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 36 stands stand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 37 on on ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 conj _ _ 42 back back ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 43 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 42 punct _ _ 44 somersaults somersault NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obj _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | You | | | | | Father *vocative*; old *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | | a parody | | | | of a serious poem by Robert | tree rules | | 3 | **give** | present | a old man | wise advice | | a serious poem by Robert | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme | | 4 | **stand** | present | the old man | | | Carroll's version | | on parody's head | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in version=Location | | 5 | **turn back** | present | the old man *not said here* | somersaults | | | | | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent somersault=Theme | 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:13`. **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): R8-pos-agree ×1. **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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