The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 101

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 · What happens: take, refuge, have, try, kill, be · To what, where: me

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.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	refuge	refuge	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 took	parataxis
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 you	case
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 refuge	obl
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 man	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
9	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 man	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 hill	punct
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 refuge	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 whom	punct
13	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 man	nmod
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 have	nsubj
15	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 whom	acl:relcl
16	offended	offended	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 have	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 trying	punct
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 trying	aux
19	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 took	advcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 kill	mark
21	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 trying	xcomp
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 kill	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 here	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 here	cc
25	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 took	advmod
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 safe	nsubj
27	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 safe	cop
28	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 here	acl:relcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct
30	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	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

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 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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