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title: “Kind heaven help us now!” she cried; “if only the wild beasts in th… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Kind heaven help us now!” she cried; “if only the wild beasts in the wood had eaten us, then at least we should have died together.” Who acts: Kind heaven, heaven, we. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hansel and Grettel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 104

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“Kind heaven help us now!” she cried; “if only the wild beasts in the wood had eaten us, then at least we should have died together.”

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**Who acts:** Kind heaven, heaven, we · **What happens:** help, cry, eat, die · **To what, where:** us, wild beasts, least · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hansel and Grettel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kind heaven, heaven, we), 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:pg503:35:104
# text = “Kind heaven help us now!” she cried; “if only the wild beasts in the wood had eaten us, then at least we should have died together.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
14	only	only	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
23	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
25	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	31	advmod	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	31	obl	_	_
28	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	aux	_	_
31	died	die	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
32	together	together	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	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 | Kind heaven | us |  |  | now |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | heaven |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **eat** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past · perfect · passive |  | the wild beasts in the wood |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **die** *in a quote* | should · perfect | we |  |  | least | then | together *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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