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title: 'Because you trusted me and took what I had to offer, you have made… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Because you trusted me and took what I had to offer, you have made me your friend, Covan,' said Doran-donn. ' Who acts: you, I, Doran. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 111

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'Because you trusted me and took what I had to offer, you have made me your friend, Covan,' said Doran-donn. '

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**Who acts:** you, I, Doran · **What happens:** trust, take, have, offer, make, say · **To what, where:** me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, Doran), 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:pg3027:30:111
# text = 'Because you trusted me and took what I had to offer, you have made me your friend, Covan,' said Doran-donn. '
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	trusted	trust	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	ccomp	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	offer	offer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Covan	Covan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
24	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	Doran	Doran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	donn	donn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
29	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trust** | past | you | me |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | past | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **offer** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **make** | present · perfect | you | me |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Product |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Doran |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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