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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

punctdiscoursepunctccompobjpunctxcompobjpunctpunctnsubjpunctadvclcasenmod:possamodoblmarknsubjadvclpunctccadvclcompound:prtnmod:posscompoundpunctobjcaseoblpunctroot“PUNCTOhINTJ,PUNCThelpVERBusPRON!PUNCThelpVERBusPRON!PUNCT”PUNCTcriedVERBtheyPRON,PUNCTstandingVERBonADPtheirPRONhindADJlegsNOUNasSCONJtheyPRONspokeVERB,PUNCTandCCONJstretchingVERBoutADPtheirPRONforeNOUN-PUNCTpawsNOUNtoADPhimPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_4 helppunct
2OhohINTJ_4 helpdiscourse
3,,PUNCT_2 Ohpunct
4helphelpVERBVerbForm=Inf11 criedccomp
5uswePRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs4 helpobj
6!!PUNCT_4 helppunct
7helphelpVERBVerbForm=Inf4 helpxcomp
8uswePRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs7 helpobj
9!!PUNCT_4 helppunct
10”"PUNCT_4 helppunct
11criedcryVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
12theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs11 criednsubj
13,,PUNCT_14 standingpunct
14standingstandVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part11 criedadvcl
15ononADP_18 legscase
16theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs18 legsnmod:poss
17hindhindADJDegree=Pos18 legsamod
18legslegNOUNNumber=Plur14 standingobl
19asasSCONJ_21 spokemark
20theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs21 spokensubj
21spokespeakVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin14 standingadvcl
22,,PUNCT_24 stretchingpunct
23andandCCONJ_24 stretchingcc
24stretchingstretchVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part11 criedadvcl
25outoutADP_24 stretchingcompound:prt
26theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs29 pawsnmod:poss
27foreforeNOUNNumber=Sing29 pawscompound
28--PUNCT_27 forepunct
29pawspawNOUNNumber=Plur24 stretchingobj
30totoADP_31 himcase
31himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs24 stretchingobl
32..PUNCT_11 criedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1help in a quoteinfinitiveusvn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary clause=Theme
2help in a quoteinfinitiveus not said hereusvn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary
3cry speech: expresspastbrothers = brothervn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4standgerundbrothers = brother not said herebrothers's hind legsvn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location
5speak speech: otherpastbrothers = brothervn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6stretch outgerundbrothers = brother not said herebrothers's fore pawshuntervn 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.

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