Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 46

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

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

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.

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	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 recognise	punct
2	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	6 recognise	advmod
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 recognise	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 recognise	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 recognise	advmod
6	recognise	recognise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 recognise	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 recognise	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 recognise	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 recognise	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 prince	det
12	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 prince	amod
13	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 recognise	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 recognise	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 call	cc
17	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 recognise	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 princess	det
19	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 princess	amod
20	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 call	obj
21	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 call	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 recognise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	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

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: «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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