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title: “Oh no,” said Wendy, rapidly thinking it out, “it will only mean hav… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: “Oh no,” said Wendy, rapidly thinking it out, “it will only mean having a few beds in the drawing-room; they can be hidden behind the screens on first Thursdays.” Who acts: Wendy, middle. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 143

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“Oh no,” said Wendy, rapidly thinking it out, “it will only mean having a few beds in the drawing-room; they can be hidden behind the screens on first Thursdays.”

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**Who acts:** Wendy, middle · **What happens:** say, think out, mean, have, hide · **To what, where:** middle, few beds, drawing room, Nibs, screens · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg16:12:143
# text = “Oh no,” said Wendy, rapidly thinking it out, “it will only mean having a few beds in the drawing-room; they can be hidden behind the screens on first Thursdays.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
3	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	ccomp	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	only	only	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	parataxis	_	_
19	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	xcomp	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	beds	bed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	drawing	drawing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
33	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	screens	screen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
36	on	on	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	38	amod	_	_
38	Thursdays	thursday	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Wendy |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **think out** *speech: other* | gerund |  | middle |  |  |  | rapidly *property* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 3 | **mean** *in a quote* | future | middle |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **have** *not said to happen, in a quote* | gerund | middle *not said here* | a few beds |  | the drawing room |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Patient |
| 5 | **hide** *in a quote* | can · passive |  | Nibs *= nib* |  | the screens |  | on first Thursdays | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient behind screen=Location |

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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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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