The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 32

But there could be no harm in just one peep!

Who acts: harm · What happens: be · To what, where: one peep

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27. 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 be	cc
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 be	expl
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 be	aux
4	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 harm	det
6	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 be	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 peep	case
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 one	advmod
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 peep	nummod
10	peep	peep	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 be	obl
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 be	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	can	could	no harm			one peep; there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in peep=Location

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: «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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