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How do existing literary annotation guidelines separate the narrator's own words from a character's speech or thought, and how do they handle the blended case (free indirect discourse) and represented acts that did not happen?

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Corpus REDEWIEDERGABE (German, 1840-1919) annotates represented speech, thought and writing by type: direct (literal quote), indirect (narrator paraphrase), free indirect (blend of character and narrator voice), reported (closest to pure narration, kappa about 0.5) and a borderline indirect/free-indirect case, with attributes for nesting level, speaker/source and non-fact. Its non-fact rule is the clearest annotation-ready sentence found for keeping 'did the character think/say it' apart from 'is it true': non-fact refers to the act, never to the truth of the content. It does not annotate narrator reliability or story-world truth, treats thought as silent speech, and is German; the guidelines are CC BY 4.0 per Zenodo metadata while the corpus is CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

Corpus REDEWIEDERGABE (German, 1840-1919) annotates represented speech, thought and writing by type: direct (literal quote), indirect (narrator paraphrase), free indirect (blend of character and narrator voice), reported (closest to pure narration, kappa about 0.5) and a borderline indirect/free-indirect case, with attributes for nesting level, speaker/source and non-fact. Its non-fact rule is the clearest annotation-ready sentence found for keeping 'did the character think/say it' apart from 'is it true': non-fact refers to the act, never to the truth of the content. It does not annotate narrator reliability or story-world truth, treats thought as silent speech, and is German; the guidelines are CC BY 4.0 per Zenodo metadata while the corpus is CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Curator qualifications: REDEWIEDERGABE types (direct, indirect, free indirect, reported) with a non-fact attribute defined on the representation act, not on truth; reported type agreement weak (0.49). 9/9 located. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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  • [sourced_fact] Corpus REDEWIEDERGABE (German, 1840-1919) annotates represented speech, thought and writing by type: direct (literal quote), indirect (narrator paraphrase), free indirect (blend of character and narrator voice), reported (closest to pure narration, kappa about 0.5) and a borderline indirect/free-indirect case, with attributes for nesting level, speaker/source and non-fact. Its non-fact rule is the clearest annotation-ready sentence found for keeping 'did the character think/say it' apart from 'is it true': non-fact refers to the act, never to the truth of the content. It does not annotate narrator reliability or story-world truth, treats thought as silent speech, and is German; the guidelines are CC BY 4.0 per Zenodo metadata while the corpus is CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. · locator: candidate evidence excerpts source

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