The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 84

But permit me to say that they are as nothing to the many coloured tapestries, the gorgeous stones and ropes of pearls in our ship.

Who acts: you, women · What happens: permit, say, be · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, women), 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	_	2 permit	cc
2	permit	permit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 permit	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 say	mark
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 permit	xcomp
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 nothing	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 nothing	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 nothing	cop
9	as	as	ADP	_	10 nothing	case
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 say	ccomp
11	to	to	ADP	_	15 tapestries	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tapestries	det
13	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 tapestries	amod
14	coloured	coloured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 tapestries	amod
15	tapestries	tapestry	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 nothing	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 stones	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 stones	det
18	gorgeous	gorgeous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 stones	amod
19	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 tapestries	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 ropes	cc
21	ropes	rope	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 tapestries	conj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 pearls	case
23	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 ropes	nmod
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 ship	case
25	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 ship	nmod:poss
26	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tapestries	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 permit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	permit	imperative	you not said here	me		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer i=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	women = woman		as nothing; to the many coloured tapestries in our ship and the gorgeous stones and ropes of pearls	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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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