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title: "Perhaps you cannot recognise me," said the young prince, "but call… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Perhaps you cannot recognise me," said the young prince, "but call the youngest princess here. Who acts: you, young prince. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 46

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"Perhaps you cannot recognise me," said the young prince, "but call the youngest princess here.

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**Who acts:** you, young prince · **What happens:** not recognise, say, call · **To what, where:** young prince, youngest princess · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, young prince), 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:pg7128:24:46
# text = "Perhaps you cannot recognise me," said the young prince, "but call the youngest princess here.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	recognise	recognise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	amod	_	_
20	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **recognise** *in a quote* | can | you | the young prince *= prince* |  |  |  | perhaps *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the young prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **call** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | the youngest princess | here |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent princess=Recipient |

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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:** «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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