Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mushroom, the long neck and the Pigeon, sentence 15

The Pigeon says "A likely story indeed!", which means: I don't believe you; it has seen many little girls, "but never one with such a neck as that!"

Who acts: Pigeon, I, story · What happens: say, mean, not believe, see · To what, where: you, many little girls · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mushroom, the long neck and the Pigeon» of the books 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 (Pigeon, I, story), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

narrate

voice

narrator

polarity

none

teacher

changed form=decl, act=narrate, voice=narrator

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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