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title: It was well for those boys then that there was one among them who co… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 38

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

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

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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.

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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:pg16:9:38
# text = It was well for those boys then that there was one among them who could sniff danger even in his sleep.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	10	expl	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nsubj	_	_
12	among	among	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nmod	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	sniff	sniff	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl:relcl	_	_
17	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	even	even	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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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