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title: You were skilled to perceive that the boy who tempted you to leave t… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: You were skilled to perceive that the boy who tempted you to leave the temple was a teller of false tales, and took with a grateful heart what the poor had to offer you. Who acts: You, boy, poor. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31, with its dependency tree and the
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 53

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You were skilled to perceive that the boy who tempted you to leave the temple was a teller of false tales, and took with a grateful heart what the poor had to offer you.

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**Who acts:** You, boy, poor · **What happens:** be, perceive, tempt, leave, take, have · **To what, where:** you, temple, teller

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, boy, poor), 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:pg3027:31:53
# text = You were skilled to perceive that the boy who tempted you to leave the temple was a teller of false tales, and took with a grateful heart what the poor had to offer you.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	skilled	skilled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	perceive	perceive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	tempted	tempt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	teller	teller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	grateful	grateful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	32	obj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	nsubj	_	_
32	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	offer	offer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
35	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	34	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | You |  |  |  |  | skilled *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **perceive** | to-infinitive | You *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **tempt** | past | the boy | you |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **leave** | to-infinitive | the boy *not said here* | the temple |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temple=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | past | the boy | a teller |  |  |  | of false tales | tree rules |
| 6 | **take** | past |  |  |  |  |  | with a grateful heart | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **have** | past | the poor |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **offer** | to-infinitive | the poor *not said here* |  | you |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent you=Theme |

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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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