--- title: “Oh, help us! help us!” cried they, standing on their hind legs as t… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “Oh, help us! help us!” cried they, standing on their hind legs as they spoke, and stretching out their fore-paws to him. Who acts: us, brothers. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/15/22/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Brown Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/) / [The Brown Fairy Book, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/15/) / 22 # The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 22 “Oh, help us! help us!” cried they, standing on their hind legs as they spoke, and stretching out their fore-paws to him. **Who acts:** us, brothers · **What happens:** help, cry, stand, speak, stretch out · **To what, where:** us, hind legs, fore paws, hunter · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (us, brothers), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg3282:15:22 # text = “Oh, help us! help us!” cried they, standing on their hind legs as they spoke, and stretching out their fore-paws to him. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 ccomp _ _ 5 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ! ! PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 7 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 8 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ! ! PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 11 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 standing stand VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 hind hind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 19 as as SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 stretching stretch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 25 out out ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ _ 26 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 27 fore fore NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 28 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 paws paw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **help** *in a quote* | infinitive | | us | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 2 | **help** *in a quote* | infinitive | us *not said here* | | us | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary | | 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | brothers *= brother* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **stand** | gerund | brothers *= brother* *not said here* | | | brothers's hind legs | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location | | 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | brothers *= brother* | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **stretch out** | gerund | brothers *= brother* *not said here* | brothers's fore paws | hunter | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent paw=Patient to he=Result | 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:** «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/15/21/) - next →: [sentence 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/15/23/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/15/)