3)Philip as a participant

*Relational Processes:

There is no sign for his physical appearance and no utterance for his personality also . But we can only guess something by means of the sentences as follows:

“Philip smiled his charming smile.”

Then we can say that he has charming smile that makes effect on Rosemary.

“But what an earth are you going to do with her? cried Philip.”

So, he accounts for something and she behaves in line with Philip’s desires.

*Material Processes:

Even though he enters at the last scene , he is ‘the actor’ in the sentences where Rosemary is ‘the goal’:

“I wanted you come...’ Here Rosemary is the goal.(‘You’= ‘Rosemary’)

“He came in...he said, and stopped and stared.” Here the events are acted by him but this time ,unlike Rosemary’s statements, there are some intransitive verbs.In Rosemary’s statements ,there are generally recipients and goals(In short there are objects) affected by the process.

“Philip jumped her on his knee.” This is the statement in which Rosemary is the recipient whereas Philip is the actor.

*Mental Processes:

As soon as he takes a part in the story, he behaves like an observor as it is understood from the sentences below:

“..he said curiously, still looking at that listless figure, looking at its hands and boots...”

“..I wanted you to come...”

“Philip smiled..”

“... cried Philip.”

Interpersonal functions

Looking at K.Mansfield’s story from the point of the language use between the participants, we come across with variability making the text closer to real, authentic usage by means of questions, answers, requests, imperatives, exclamations and so on.

To begin with turn-takings between Rosemary and Miss Smith, it is seen that there are lots of questions and answers:

“May I speak to you a moment?”

“Speak to me?” (And this also presents us a part from an authentic language use by shortening the statement.It is also the indicator of bewilderment of Rosemary against the girl’s behaviour.)

“Would you let me have the price of a cup tea?”

“A cup of tea ?Then have you no money at all?”

“Do you like me?”

And sometimes Rosemary gives answers instead of the girl. She does most of the talking:

“Of course, she will.”

“...She insisted on going...”(She says to Philip as if it was said by Miss Smith ,herself.)

There are imperatives uttered by Rosemary again ,which proves that she does and gets whatever she wants from helpless people :

“Come along.”

“Come, come upstairs.”

“Come and sit down.”

“Don’t cry.”

“Do stop crying.”

She also uses imperatives against ‘Philip’:

“Be nice to her.”

“Kiss me.”

But Philip also gives commands to her:

“Explain”

“Look again, my child.”

However Miss Smith uses polite requests such as:

“May I speak to you a moment?”

“ Would you let me have the price of a cup of tea.”

“...so ligthtly and strangely: ‘I’m very sorry, madam, but I’m going to faint.I shall go off ,madam, if I don’t have something.’” (It is not in an exact polite request form but said politely.)

“I can’t go on no longer like this. I can’t bear no more” (Totally free in revealing her ideas and feelings not by consulting to politeness.)

Exclamations are used by Rosemary sometimes to express her ideas:

“Charming!”

“How extraordinary!”

sometimes to present her while thinking to herself:

“How thoughtless I am!”

“Pretty!”

“Lovely!”(By repeating Philip’s utterances angrily.)

Sometimes to demonstrate:

“There!”