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title: It was a pillow fight rather than a dance, and when it was finished,… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, with its dependency tree and the
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# Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 143

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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.

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

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg16:11:143
# text = 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.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	pillow	pillow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	rather	rather	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	9	cc	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	6	fixed	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	finished	finish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	pillows	pillow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	insisted	insist	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	like	like	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	partners	partner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
27	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
31	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	_
34	again	again	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to 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 |

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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.

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**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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