Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 14
The first to pass is Tootles, not the least brave but the most unfortunate of all that gallant band.
What happens: pass, be · To what, where: first Tootles
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 first | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 Tootles | amod |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 pass | mark |
| 4 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 first | acl |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Tootles | cop |
| 6 | Tootles | tootle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 brave | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 brave | punct |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 brave | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 brave | det |
| 10 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 brave | advmod |
| 11 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 unfortunate | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 unfortunate | det |
| 14 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 15 unfortunate | advmod |
| 15 | unfortunate | unfortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 brave | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 all | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 unfortunate | obl |
| 18 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 band | det |
| 19 | gallant | gallant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 band | amod |
| 20 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 all | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 brave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | to-infinitive | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | first Tootles | 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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