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title: He winked at Slightly, who said mournfully, “I don’t think so,” as i… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: He winked at Slightly, who said mournfully, “I don’t think so,” as if he wished things had been otherwise. Who acts: din, I. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 78

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He winked at Slightly, who said mournfully, “I don’t think so,” as if he wished things had been otherwise.

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**Who acts:** din, I · **What happens:** wink, say, not think, wish, be · **To what, where:** things · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (din, I), 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:pg16:15:78
# text = He winked at Slightly, who said mournfully, “I don’t think so,” as if he wished things had been otherwise.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	winked	wink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Slightly	slightly	ADV	RB	_	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	mournfully	mournfully	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
22	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	cop	_	_
25	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	RB	_	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wink** | past | din |  |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  | mournfully *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present · do-support | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **wish** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | din | things |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | otherwise *property* | tree rules |

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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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