Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 38

It was well for those boys then that there was one among them who could sniff danger even in his sleep.

Who acts: sleep, one, change · What happens: be, sniff, sleep · To what, where: danger, sleep

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sleep, one, change), 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	6 boys	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 boys	cop
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 boys	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 boys	case
5	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 boys	det
6	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 was	advmod
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 was	mark
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 was	expl
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 boys	acl:relcl
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 sniff	nsubj
12	among	among	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 one	nmod
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 sniff	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 sniff	aux
16	sniff	sniff	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 boys	acl:relcl
17	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sniff	obj
18	even	even	ADV	_	21 sleep	advmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 sleep	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 sleep	nmod:poss
21	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sniff	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 boys	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	sleep			for that boys; well property	tree rules
2	sniff	could	one among boys	danger	change's sleep		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent danger=Theme
3	sleep		change				nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=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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