Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 142

So uproariously gay was the dance, and how they buffeted each other on the bed and out of it!

Who acts: gay, redskins · What happens: be, buffet · To what, where: dance, each, bed

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gay, redskins), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 uproariously	advmod
2	uproariously	uproariously	ADV	_	6 dance	advmod
3	gay	Gay	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 dance	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dance	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dance	det
6	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 buffeted	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 buffeted	cc
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 buffeted	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 buffeted	nsubj
11	buffeted	buffet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dance	conj
12	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	11 buffeted	obj
13	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 each	fixed
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 bed	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bed	det
16	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 buffeted	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 it	cc
18	out	out	ADP	_	20 it	case
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 buffeted	conj
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 dance	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	gay	the dance				uproariously property	tree rules
2	buffet	past	redskins = redskin	each		the bed			vn pelt-17.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Destination

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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