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title: ‘Percinet, if you can still care for such an imprudent Princess, do… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Percinet, if you can still care for such an imprudent Princess, do come and help me once more.’ Who acts: Percinet. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3, sentence 32

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‘Percinet, if you can still care for such an imprudent Princess, do come and help me once more.’

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**Who acts:** Percinet · **What happens:** care, come, help · **To what, where:** me

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Percinet), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg540:25:32
# text = ‘Percinet, if you can still care for such an imprudent Princess, do come and help me once more.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Percinet	Percinet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	still	still	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	care	care	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	13	det:predet	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	imprudent	imprudent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	help	help	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	21	advmod	_	_
21	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **care** | can | Percinet |  |  |  | still | for such imprudent Princess | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for princess=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | infinitive · do-support |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **help** | infinitive |  |  | me |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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