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title: When she expressed a doubtful hope that Tinker Bell would be glad to… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: When she expressed a doubtful hope that Tinker Bell would be glad to see her he said, “Who is Tinker Bell?” Who acts: Nana, doubtful hope, Tinker. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 98

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When she expressed a doubtful hope that Tinker Bell would be glad to see her he said, “Who is Tinker Bell?”

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**Who acts:** Nana, doubtful hope, Tinker · **What happens:** express, be, see, say · **To what, where:** doubtful hope, Nana, Tinker Bell · **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 (Nana, doubtful hope, Tinker), 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:pg16:18:98
# text = When she expressed a doubtful hope that Tinker Bell would be glad to see her he said, “Who is Tinker Bell?”
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	expressed	express	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	doubtful	doubtful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
8	Tinker	Tinker	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	Bell	Bell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
12	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	acl:relcl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	Tinker	Tinker	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Bell	Bell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **express** | past | Nana | a doubtful hope |  |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hope=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | would | a doubtful hope |  |  |  |  | glad *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive | a doubtful hope *not said here* | Nana |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
| 4 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | Tinker |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | Tinker Bell |  |  |  |  | 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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