The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 53

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 · What happens: be, perceive, tempt, leave, take, have · To what, where: you, temple, teller

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.

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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 skilled	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 skilled	cop
3	skilled	skilled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 perceive	mark
5	perceive	perceive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 skilled	xcomp
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 teller	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boy	det
8	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 teller	nsubj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 tempted	nsubj
10	tempted	tempt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 boy	acl:relcl
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 tempted	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 leave	mark
13	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 tempted	xcomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 temple	det
15	temple	temple	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 leave	obj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 teller	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 teller	det
18	teller	teller	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 perceive	ccomp
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 tales	case
20	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 tales	amod
21	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 teller	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 took	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 took	cc
24	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 skilled	parataxis
25	with	with	ADP	_	28 heart	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 heart	det
27	grateful	grateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 heart	amod
28	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 took	obl
29	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	32 had	obj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 poor	det
31	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 had	nsubj
32	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 took	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 offer	mark
34	offer	offer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 had	xcomp
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 offer	iobj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 skilled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	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

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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