Off with her head and the finest house on the river: Alice and Toad, sentence 17

Toad's song boasts: «The clever men at Oxford / Know all that there is to be knowed. / But they none of them know one half as much / As intelligent Mr.

Who acts: song, clever men, men, Toad · What happens: boast, know, be, knowe, sing · To what, where: all, one half · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Off with her head and the finest house on the river: Alice and Toad» of the language 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 (song, clever men, men, Toad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

assert

voice

character

polarity

none

teacher

changed 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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