--- title: “You are old, Father William,” the young man said, “And your hair ha… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: “You are old, Father William,” the young man said, “And your hair has become very white; And yet you incessantly stand on your head— Do you think, at your age, it is right?” Who acts: You, young man, hair. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter V. Advice from a Ca --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/6/36/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Alice's Adventures in Wonderland](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/) / [Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/6/) / 36 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 36 “You are old, Father William,” the young man said, “And your hair has become very white; And yet you incessantly stand on your head— Do you think, at your age, it is right?” **Who acts:** You, young man, hair · **What happens:** be, say, become, stand, think · **To what, where:** head, age · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, young man, hair), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg11:6:36 # text = “You are old, Father William,” the young man said, “And your hair has become very white; And yet you incessantly stand on your head— Do you think, at your age, it is right?” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 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 13 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 Father Father PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 vocative _ _ 7 William William PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 15 “ " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 And and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 19 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 become become VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 13 ccomp _ _ 21 very very ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 24 And and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 yet yet ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 incessantly incessantly ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 stand stand VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ _ 29 on on ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 — - PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 33 Do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 34 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 at at ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 42 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 43 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ? ? PUNCT . _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ” " PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | 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 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | the young man | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **become** *in a quote* | present · perfect | your hair | | | | | white *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **stand** *in a quote* | present | you | | | your head | yet | incessantly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on head=Location | | 5 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | | | | at your age | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present | hair | | | | | right *property* | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/6/35/) - next →: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/6/37/) - ↑ back to [Chapter V. 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