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title: “Not if you don’t wish it,” she replied; and she distinctly heard hi… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: “Not if you don’t wish it,” she replied; and she distinctly heard his sigh of relief. Who acts: you, opinion, Wendy. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 113

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“Not if you don’t wish it,” she replied; and she distinctly heard his sigh of relief.

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**Who acts:** you, opinion, Wendy · **What happens:** not wish, reply, hear, sigh · **To what, where:** hand, sigh, relief · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, opinion, Wendy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg16:1457`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg16:11:113
# text = “Not if you don’t wish it,” she replied; and she distinctly heard his sigh of relief.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
2	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	wish	wish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	distinctly	distinctly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	sigh	sigh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	relief	relief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **wish** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present · do-support | you | hand |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | opinion |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **hear** | past | opinion | Wendy's sigh of relief |  |  |  | distinctly *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sigh=Stimulus |
| 4 | **sigh** |  | Wendy | relief |  |  |  |  | nom sigh «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |

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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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**Text:** «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Project Gutenberg book 16 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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