Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 143

It was a pillow fight rather than a dance, and when it was finished, the pillows insisted on one bout more, like partners who know that they may never meet again.

Who acts: bed, partners, redskins · What happens: be, finish, insist, know, not meet · To what, where: pillow fight, bed, pillows, one bout

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 (bed, partners, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fight	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fight	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fight	det
4	pillow	pillow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fight	compound
5	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	9 dance	cc
7	than	than	ADP	_	6 rather	fixed
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 dance	det
9	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fight	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 finished	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 finished	cc
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 finished	advmod
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 finished	nsubj:pass
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 finished	aux:pass
15	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 fight	acl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 pillows	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 pillows	det
18	pillows	pillow	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 finished	obl
19	insisted	insist	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 pillows	acl
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 bout	case
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 bout	nummod
22	bout	bout	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 insisted	obl
23	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 pillows	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 partners	punct
25	like	like	ADP	_	26 partners	case
26	partners	partner	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 finished	obl
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 know	nsubj
28	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 partners	acl:relcl
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 meet	mark
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 meet	nsubj
31	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 meet	aux
32	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	33 meet	advmod
33	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 know	advcl
34	again	again	ADV	_	33 meet	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fight	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	bed	a pillow fight rather a dance				tree rules
2	finish	past · passive		bed			like partners; the pillows obl	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality
3	insist speech: other	participle		the pillows not said here	one bout			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
4	know	present	partners					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	not meet	may	redskins = redskin			again		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: 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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