Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 130

“See here, honey,” he whispered, “I’ll save you if you promise to be my mother.”

Who acts: you, Smee · What happens: see, whisper, save, promise, be · To what, where: honey, you, mother · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Smee), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 See	punct
2	See	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 See	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 honey	punct
5	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 See	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 See	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 See	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 whispered	nsubj
9	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 See	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 save	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 save	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 save	nsubj
13	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 save	aux
14	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 whispered	ccomp
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 save	obj
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 promise	mark
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 promise	nsubj
18	promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 save	advcl
19	to	to	PART	_	22 mother	mark
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 mother	cop
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 mother	nmod:poss
22	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 promise	ccomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 See	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 See	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	see in a quote	imperative	you not said here	honey	here	tree rules
2	whisper speech: assert	past	Smee			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	save in a quote	future	Smee	you		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
4	promise speech: promise a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you			vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is a not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive		my mother		tree rules

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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