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title: I took refuge with you because the old hill-man, whom I have offende… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I took refuge with you because the old hill-man, whom I have offended, was trying to kill me, and here I am safe.' Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 101

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I took refuge with you because the old hill-man, whom I have offended, was trying to kill me, and here I am safe.'

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** take, refuge, have, try, kill, be · **To what, where:** me

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg3027:39:101
# text = I took refuge with you because the old hill-man, whom I have offended, was trying to kill me, and here I am safe.'
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	refuge	refuge	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nmod	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	offended	offended	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | I |  |  | here |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **refuge** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with you | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present | I |  |  |  |  | offended *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **try** | past · progressive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **kill** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | tree rules |

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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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