Looking at the participants, some of them employ Connie as the participant which means the examples of the FIT in M.3.3, M.3.9, M.3.20b, and M.3.21.
Connie appears mostly with median probability and inclination. In addition, the FIT also shows the affect +hap as in M.3.11 that reflects Mavis’s condition at
that time and the affect -hap when she remembers about her life with her husband M.3.10. She still has affect -sec when dealing with her dream in
M.3.13a and M.3.19
4.1.3.4 Narrator Report of Thought Act NRTA and Embedded Idea
The least common types of mental representation analysis of Mavis are the NRTA and the embedded idea. The NRTA can be found in excerpt 1 and excerpt
2, while the embedded idea rises in excerpt 3. M.1.13b Mavis chilled at the thought of approaching it. NRTA
M.2.5 Mavis felt her stupidity close in on her head like a dry
sack. NRTA M.2.10 … she … woke to awful thoughts, … NRTA
M.3.7 It was more proof that the old Mavis was dead. The one
who could not defend herself from an eleven-year-old- girl,…, now created crepe-like delicacies embedded idea
According to Black 2006, the NRTA is used by the narrator to give comment to
the thought or the cognitive condition of the omniscient narrator. In excerpt1, the perceptive verb, chilled, appears with thought that indicates the cognitive
condition. It has the similar style with excerpt 2 where the narrator illustrates the perceptive side of the cognitive condition of the character. The difference is that if
the NRTA in excerpt 1 describes the sense of fear, the NRTAs in excerpt 2 describe the sense of incapability and unhappiness. Regarding the embedded idea,
Halliday and Matthiessen 2004 explain that the idea is not always projected, but
it can be embedded within a nominal group. The sign of the example M.3.7 is the nominalization proof, and looking at the idea, it is carried out to emphasize the
different between old Mavis and new Mavis. In brief, each type of the phenomenality and thought presentation in Mavis
has its own function. The phenomenal and the thought presentation with mental verbs are used to give the overall description about the mental condition of the
character from the insecurity and analysis about Mavis’s family in excerpt 1, incapacity in excerpt 2, and happiness or metal changes in excerpt 3. The FIT as
the one that dominates the thought presentations appears mostly with material and relational process to support and give details to the clauses with mental verb. In
the same way, the NRTA in excerpt 1 and 2 contains the narrator’s report about the mind of the character that reflects Mavis’s psychological condition. As for the
embedded idea, it is employed to compare Mavis’s opinion about herself when she still lives at her house and after she lives at Convent for several years.
4.2 The Linguistic Features of Connie
The excerpts in this analysis are taken from the chapter titled Consolata, also known as Connie. She is a fifty-four-year-old woman who has psychic
power. She is a place for women who come at Convent to ask for advice, who need a shelter for protection, and even who run from their problems. One of them
is Mavis. She has once had a love affair with Deacon Morgan, the son of the seven founders of Ruby although at the end, she realizes her mistake and ends her
affair. She has also used her power to save Scout, Deacon’s son, and after that, she has a friendship with Deacon’s wife. It seems that she understands the problems
of all the women at Convent and gives freedom for them to do what they like to
