Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 52

“I say, Wendy,” he whispered to her, “always if you see me forgetting you, just keep on saying ‘I’m Wendy,’ and then I’ll remember.”

Who acts: recognition · What happens: say, whisper, forget, keep, be, remember · To what, where: Wendy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (recognition), 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	_	3 say	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 say	nsubj
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Wendy	punct
5	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 say	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 say	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	3 say	parataxis
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 her	case
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 whispered	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 forgetting	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 forgetting	punct
14	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	17 see	advmod
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 see	mark
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 see	nsubj
17	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 forgetting	aux
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 see	obj
19	forgetting	forget	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 whispered	advcl
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 forgetting	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 keep	punct
22	just	just	ADV	_	23 keep	advmod
23	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 forgetting	conj
24	on	on	SCONJ	_	25 saying	mark
25	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 keep	xcomp
26	‘	'	PUNCT	_	28 ’m	punct
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 ’m	nsubj
28	’m	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 saying	ccomp
29	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 ’m	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 ’m	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	28 ’m	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 remember	cc
33	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 remember	advmod
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 remember	nsubj
35	’ll	'll	ADV	_	36 remember	advmod
36	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 whispered	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	recognition	Wendy				tree rules
2	whisper speech: assert	past	recognition		Wendy			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient
3	forget in a quote	present	recognition not said here	Wendy				tree rules
4	keep in a quote	infinitive	recognition not said here					tree rules
5	say speech: assert in a quote	gerund	recognition not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	be in a quote	present	recognition	Wendy				vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot wendy=Theme
7	remember in a quote	present	recognition			then	'll property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

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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