Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 2: The Mock Turtle's Story (school under the sea), sentence 11

A Gryphon (also spelled griffin) is a creature from old stories, half eagle and half lion; the book says «If you don't know what a Gryphon is, look at the picture».

Who acts: Gryphon, book, you · What happens: spell, be, say, not know, look · To what, where: creature, old stories · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 2: The Mock Turtle's Story (school under the sea)» 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 (Gryphon, book, you), 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

kept the draft

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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