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title: A cry came up in answer, ‘O servant of God! we have been in the well… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: A cry came up in answer, ‘O servant of God! we have been in the well a long time; in God’s name get us out!’ Who acts: cry, we, God. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 42

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A cry came up in answer, ‘O servant of God! we have been in the well a long time; in God’s name get us out!’

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**Who acts:** cry, we, God · **What happens:** come up, be, get out, name · **To what, where:** servant, answer, long time, well, us, name

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cry, we, God), 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:pg3282:5:42
# text = A cry came up in answer, ‘O servant of God! we have been in the well a long time; in God’s name get us out!’
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	_
10	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
14	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
16	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	cop	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’s	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
28	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
29	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	out	out	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come up** | past | a cry | servant of God |  | answer |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in answer=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | present · perfect | we | a long time |  | the well |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **get out** | present | a cry *not said here* | us |  | God's name |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **name** |  | God |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 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.

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