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title: The invisible Prince recognised these dead men as Kings of two large… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The invisible Prince recognised these dead men as Kings of two large islands near his own home, but the names of the Princesses were unknown to him. Who acts: invisible Prince, names. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, with its dependency tree and 
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 1

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The invisible Prince recognised these dead men as Kings of two large islands near his own home, but the names of the Princesses were unknown to him.

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**Who acts:** invisible Prince, names · **What happens:** recognise, be, name · **To what, where:** dead men, Prince, Princesses

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (invisible Prince, names), 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:pg640:17:1
# text = The invisible Prince recognised these dead men as Kings of two large islands near his own home, but the names of the Princesses were unknown to him.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	invisible	invisible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	recognised	recognise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
6	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
12	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
14	near	near	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Princesses	Princess	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recognise** | past | the invisible Prince | this dead men |  |  |  | as Kings of two large islands near Prince's own home | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus as king=Attribute |
| 2 | **is** | past | the names of the Princesses |  | Prince |  |  | unknown *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **name** |  |  | the Princesses |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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