Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mushroom, the long neck and the Pigeon, sentence 17

The Pigeon adds "You're looking for eggs, I know that well enough; and what does it matter to me whether you're a little girl or a serpent?"

Who acts: Pigeon, You · What happens: add, look, know, matter, be · To what, where: that, kind, Pigeon, little girl · 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, You), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

yes/no question

act

assert

voice

character

polarity

none

indirect

yes

teacher

changed form=q, act=assert

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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