Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 71

The first to fall out of the moving circle was the boys.

What happens: fall, move, be · To what, where: moving circle, first boys

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	12 boys	amod
3	to	to	PART	_	4 fall	mark
4	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 first	acl
5	out	out	ADP	_	9 circle	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 circle	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 circle	det
8	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 circle	amod
9	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fall	obl
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 boys	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 boys	det
12	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 boys	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	roles by
1	fall	to-infinitive		the moving circle	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme out circle=Location
2	move	gerund			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	past	the first boys		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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