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title: “Hullo, Wendy,” he said, not noticing any difference, for he was thi… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: “Hullo, Wendy,” he said, not noticing any difference, for he was thinking chiefly of himself; and in the dim light her white dress might have been the nightgown in which he had seen her first. Who acts: Wendy. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, with its depe
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 191

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“Hullo, Wendy,” he said, not noticing any difference, for he was thinking chiefly of himself; and in the dim light her white dress might have been the nightgown in which he had seen her first.

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**Who acts:** Wendy · **What happens:** say, not notice, think, see · **To what, where:** difference, chiefly, white dress, dim light · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg16:18:191
# text = “Hullo, Wendy,” he said, not noticing any difference, for he was thinking chiefly of himself; and in the dim light her white dress might have been the nightgown in which he had seen her first.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Hullo	hullo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	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	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	noticing	notice	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
12	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	difference	difference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
19	chiefly	chiefly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	dim	dim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
31	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
32	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	aux	_	_
33	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	40	aux	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	nightgown	nightgown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj:pass	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	40	obl	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
39	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
41	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obj	_	_
42	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	40	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 |
| 2 | **not** **notice** | gerund | Wendy *not said here* | any difference |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer difference=Stimulus |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past · progressive | Wendy | chiefly of Wendy |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot chiefly=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | might · perfect · passive |  | Jane's white dress |  | the dim light |  | first *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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