The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1, sentence 46

Ill do they listen to all sorts of tongues, Since some inchant and lure like Syrens' songs.

Who acts: beauties, Syrens · What happens: listen, sort, sing · To what, where: tongues

This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beauties, Syrens), 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	Ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 listen	advcl
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 listen	aux
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 listen	nsubj
4	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 sorts	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 sorts	det
7	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 listen	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 tongues	case
9	tongues	tongue	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sorts	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 inchant	punct
11	Since	since	ADP	_	13 inchant	case
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 inchant	det
13	inchant	inchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 listen	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 lure	cc
15	lure	lure	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 inchant	conj
16	like	like	ADP	_	19 songs	case
17	Syrens	syren	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 songs	nmod:poss
18	'	's	PART	_	17 Syrens	case
19	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 lure	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 listen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	listen	present · do-support	beauties = beauty		since some inchant and lure like Syrens's songs	to all sorts of tongues	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to sort=Theme
2	sort			tongues			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient
3	sing		Syrens				nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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 Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (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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