The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 36

But first you must permit me to lead you to the palace of the fairies, which, though hard by, has never been seen by mortal eyes because of the thick clouds that surround it.

Who acts: you, mortal eyes, thick clouds · What happens: permit, lead, not see, surround · To what, where: me, you, palace, crab

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, mortal eyes, thick clouds), 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	_	5 permit	cc
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 permit	advmod
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 permit	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 permit	aux
5	permit	permit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 permit	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 lead	mark
8	lead	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 permit	xcomp
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 lead	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 palace	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 palace	det
12	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lead	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 fairies	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fairies	det
15	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 palace	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 which	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 palace	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 seen	punct
19	though	though	SCONJ	_	26 seen	mark
20	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 seen	advmod
21	by	by	ADP	_	20 hard	fixed
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hard	punct
23	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 seen	aux
24	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	26 seen	advmod
25	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 seen	aux:pass
26	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 permit	conj
27	by	by	ADP	_	29 eyes	case
28	mortal	mortal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 eyes	amod
29	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 seen	obl
30	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	34 clouds	case
31	of	of	ADP	_	30 because	fixed
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 clouds	det
33	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 clouds	amod
34	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 seen	obl
35	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 surround	nsubj
36	surround	surround	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 clouds	acl:relcl
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 surround	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 permit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	permit	must	you	me		first property	vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer i=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	lead not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	you	the palace of the fairies		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to palace=Destination
3	not see	present · perfect · passive	mortal eyes			because the thick clouds; hard property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	surround	present	the thick clouds	crab			vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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