Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 113
“Not if you don’t wish it,” she replied; and she distinctly heard his sigh of relief.
Who acts: you, opinion, Wendy · What happens: not wish, reply, hear, sigh · To what, where: hand, sigh, relief · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, opinion, Wendy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg16:1457): 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 wish | punct |
| 2 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 wish | advmod |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 wish | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 wish | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 wish | aux |
| 6 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 wish | advmod |
| 7 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 replied | ccomp |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 wish | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 wish | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 wish | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 replied | nsubj |
| 12 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 heard | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 heard | cc |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 heard | nsubj |
| 16 | distinctly | distinctly | ADV | _ | 17 heard | advmod |
| 17 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 replied | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 sigh | nmod:poss |
| 19 | sigh | sigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 heard | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 relief | case |
| 21 | relief | relief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sigh | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not wish a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · do-support | you | hand | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | opinion | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | hear | past | opinion | Wendy's sigh of relief | distinctly property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sigh=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | sigh | Wendy | relief | nom sigh «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
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.
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/11/113/