---
title: Wendy thought Napoleon could have got it, but I can picture him tryi… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Wendy thought Napoleon could have got it, but I can picture him trying, and then going off in a passion, slamming the door. Who acts: Wendy, Napoleon, I. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/2/14/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Peter Pan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/) / [Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/2/) / 14

# Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 14

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Wendy thought Napoleon could have got it, but I can picture him trying, and then going off in a passion, slamming the door.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Wendy, Napoleon, I · **What happens:** think, get, picture, try, go off, slam · **To what, where:** kiss, Napoleon, passion, door · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wendy, Napoleon, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg16:2:14
# text = Wendy thought Napoleon could have got it, but I can picture him trying, and then going off in a passion, slamming the door.
1	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Napoleon	Napoleon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux	_	_
6	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	ccomp	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	picture	picture	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	trying	try	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
18	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	conj	_	_
19	off	off	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	passion	passion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	slamming	slam	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Wendy |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **get** | could · perfect | Napoleon | kiss |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 3 | **picture** | can | I | Napoleon |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **try** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **go off** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  | a passion | then |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in passion=Location |
| 6 | **slam** | gerund | I *not said here* | the door |  |  |  |  | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/2/13/)
- next →: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/2/15/)
- ↑ back to [Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/2/)