Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 187

Even Michael, already half asleep, knew that she was perturbed, and he asked, “Can anything harm us, mother, after the night-lights are lit?”

Who acts: Michael, anything · What happens: know, perturb, ask, harm, lit · To what, where: Mrs., us, night lights · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter II. THE SHADOW. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Michael, anything), 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	Even	even	ADV	_	2 Michael	advmod
2	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 knew	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 asleep	punct
4	already	already	ADV	_	6 asleep	advmod
5	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	6 asleep	advmod
6	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Michael	acl:relcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Michael	punct
8	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 perturbed	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 perturbed	nsubj:pass
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 perturbed	aux:pass
12	perturbed	perturb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 knew	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 asked	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 asked	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 asked	nsubj
16	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 knew	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 harm	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 harm	punct
19	Can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 harm	aux
20	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	21 harm	nsubj
21	harm	harm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 asked	ccomp
22	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 harm	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 mother	punct
24	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 harm	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 lit	punct
26	after	after	SCONJ	_	32 lit	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 lights	det
28	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 lights	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 night	punct
30	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 lit	nsubj:pass
31	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 lit	aux:pass
32	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 asked	advcl
33	?	?	PUNCT	_	32 lit	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	know	past	Michael		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	perturb	past · passive		Mrs.	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
3	ask speech: ask	past	Michael		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	harm in a quote	can	anything	us	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus we=Experiencer
5	lit in a quote	present · passive		the night lights	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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