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title: “I do wish Peter would come back,” every one of them said nervously,… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: “I do wish Peter would come back,” every one of them said nervously, though in height and still more in breadth they were all larger than their captain. Who acts: Peter, one, boys. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 73

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“I do wish Peter would come back,” every one of them said nervously, though in height and still more in breadth they were all larger than their captain.

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**Who acts:** Peter, one, boys · **What happens:** wish, come back, say, be · **To what, where:** height · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter, one, boys), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg16:786`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg16:6:73
# text = “I do wish Peter would come back,” every one of them said nervously, though in height and still more in breadth they were all larger than their captain.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	wish	wish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
5	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
8	back	back	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
11	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nmod	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	nervously	nervously	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
18	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	still	still	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	25	advmod	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	breadth	breadth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	all	all	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	advcl	_	_
30	than	than	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wish** *in a quote* | present · do-support |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **come back** *in a quote* | would | Peter |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | every one of boys |  |  |  |  | nervously *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **is** | past | boys *= boy* |  |  | height and breadth |  | than boys's captain; all, large *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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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