More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 23

There can't be any harm in just peeping."

Who acts: harm · What happens: not be, peep

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (harm), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 be	expl
2	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 be	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 be	advmod
4	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 harm	det
6	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 be	nsubj
7	in	in	SCONJ	_	9 peeping	mark
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 peeping	advmod
9	peeping	peep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 be	advcl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 be	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 be	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not can	can	any harm			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	peep	gerund	any harm not said here						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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