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title: “No, no,” he told Wendy decisively; “perhaps she would say I was old… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: “No, no,” he told Wendy decisively; “perhaps she would say I was old, and I just want always to be a little boy and to have fun.” Who acts: departure, Wendy. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 162

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“No, no,” he told Wendy decisively; “perhaps she would say I was old, and I just want always to be a little boy and to have fun.”

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**Who acts:** departure, Wendy · **What happens:** tell, say, be, want, have · **To what, where:** Wendy, little boy, fun · **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 (departure, Wendy), 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:pg16:12:162
# text = “No, no,” he told Wendy decisively; “perhaps she would say I was old, and I just want always to be a little boy and to have fun.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	iobj	_	_
10	decisively	decisively	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	just	just	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
25	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	24	advmod	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	cop	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	xcomp	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	have	have	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
34	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | departure |  | Wendy |  |  | decisively *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent wendy=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | would | Wendy |  |  |  |  | perhaps *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | past | departure |  |  |  |  | old *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **want** *in a quote* | present | departure |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 5 | **is a** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | departure *not said here* | a little boy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **have** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | departure *not said here* | fun |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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