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title: This almost makes one wish that the gulch or the cake or Tink’s leaf… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: This almost makes one wish that the gulch or the cake or Tink’s leaf had won. Who acts: This, leaf. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 88

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This almost makes one wish that the gulch or the cake or Tink’s leaf had won.

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**Who acts:** This, leaf · **What happens:** make, win · **To what, where:** one wish

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, leaf), 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:pg16:8:88
# text = This almost makes one wish that the gulch or the cake or Tink’s leaf had won.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	gulch	gulch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	Tink	Tink	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
15	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	won	win	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | This | one wish |  |  |  | almost *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wish=Product |
| 2 | **win** | past · perfect | the gulch or the cake or Tink's leaf | one wish *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Eventuality |

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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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