Mental Clause Types With Act As Phenomenon

Martin, Matthiessen & Painter (2010: 244):

Embedded clauses can function as the Phenomenon of a mental clause under certain conditions. Embedded clauses representing acts can occur as the Phenomenon of perception in perceptive clauses.

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To be clear, unknown to the authors — and IFG (Halliday & Matthiessen 2014: 252) — embedded clauses representing acts can also occur as the Phenomenon of cognition in cognitive clauses:

She envisaged [[ants crawling up her leg]]

as the Phenomenon of desideration in desiderative clauses:

She wouldn't want [[ants crawling up her leg]]

and as the Phenomenon of emotion in emotive clauses:

She hated [[ants crawling up her leg]].