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title: "You help me," cried Rudy; "I do not yet require a woman to help me… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "You help me," cried Rudy; "I do not yet require a woman to help me to climb." Who acts: You, Rudy. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, V. on the Way Home, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, V. on the Way Home, sentence 25

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"You help me," cried Rudy; "I do not yet require a woman to help me to climb."

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**Who acts:** You, Rudy · **What happens:** help, cry, not require, climb · **To what, where:** Rudy, woman · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, V. on the Way Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Rudy), 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:pg27200:56:25
# text = "You help me," cried Rudy; "I do not yet require a woman to help me to climb."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
7	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
12	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
14	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	require	require	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	climb	climb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** *in a quote* | present | You |  | Rudy |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Rudy |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **require** *in a quote* | present · do-support | Rudy | a woman |  |  | yet |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme woman=Precondition |
| 4 | **help** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Rudy *not said here* | Rudy |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 5 | **climb** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Rudy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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