Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 43

He wished she had not mentioned letters.

Who acts: Peter, Wendy · What happens: wish, not mention · To what, where: letters · Speech: someone speaks here

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

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wished	nsubj
2	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 mentioned	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mentioned	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 mentioned	advmod
6	mentioned	mention	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 wished	ccomp
7	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 mentioned	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wish	past	Peter						vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	not mention speech: other	past · perfect	Wendy	letters					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent letter=Topic

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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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