The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1, sentence 49

Some of them mild and gentle-humour'd be, Of noise and gall, and rancour wholly free; Who tame, familiar, full of complaisance Ogle and leer, languish, cajole and glance; With luring tongues, and language wond'rous sweet, Follow young ladies as they walk the street, Ev'n to their very houses, nay, bedside, And, artful, tho' their true designs they hide; Yet ah! these simpering Wolves!

Who acts: Some, mild humour, language, sorts, these · What happens: humour, be, languish, cajole, glance, lure · To what, where: street, true designs, Wolves

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 (Some, mild humour, language, sorts), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 humour	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Some	nmod
4	mild	mild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 humour	amod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 gentle	cc
6	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mild	conj
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 gentle	punct
8	humour	humour	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 noise	nsubj
9	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 noise	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 noise	cop
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 noise	punct
12	Of	of	ADP	_	13 noise	case
13	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 gall	cc
15	gall	gall	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 noise	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 free	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 free	cc
18	rancour	rancour	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 free	nsubj
19	wholly	wholly	ADV	_	20 free	advmod
20	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 noise	parataxis
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 tame	punct
22	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 tame	nsubj
23	tame	tame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 free	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 familiar	punct
25	familiar	familiar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 free	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 full	punct
27	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 free	conj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 Ogle	case
29	complaisance	complaisance	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 Ogle	nmod:desc
30	Ogle	Ogle	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 full	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 leer	cc
32	leer	leer	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 Ogle	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 languish	punct
34	languish	languish	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 noise	parataxis
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 cajole	punct
36	cajole	cajole	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	34 languish	conj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 glance	cc
38	glance	glance	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	36 cajole	conj
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 tongues	punct
40	With	with	ADP	_	42 tongues	case
41	luring	lure	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	42 tongues	amod
42	tongues	tongue	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 noise	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 ladies	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 ladies	cc
45	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 ladies	nsubj
46	wond'rous	wond'rous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 ladies	amod
47	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 ladies	amod
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 sweet	punct
49	Follow	follow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 ladies	amod
50	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 ladies	amod
51	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 tongues	nmod
52	as	as	SCONJ	_	54 walk	mark
53	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 walk	nsubj
54	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 ladies	acl
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 street	det
56	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 walk	obj
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 Ev'n	punct
58	Ev'n	Ev'n	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 tongues	conj
59	to	to	ADP	_	62 houses	case
60	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	62 houses	nmod:poss
61	very	very	ADV	_	62 houses	advmod
62	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 tongues	nmod
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 bedside	punct
64	nay	nay	INTJ	_	66 bedside	discourse
65	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 bedside	punct
66	bedside	bedside	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 houses	appos
67	,	,	PUNCT	_	70 artful	punct
68	And	and	CCONJ	_	70 artful	cc
69	,	,	PUNCT	_	70 artful	punct
70	artful	artful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	66 bedside	conj
71	,	,	PUNCT	_	76 designs	punct
72	tho	though	ADP	_	76 designs	case
73	'	'	PUNCT	_	76 designs	punct
74	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	76 designs	nmod:poss
75	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	76 designs	amod
76	designs	design	NOUN	Number=Plur	70 artful	obl
77	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	78 hide	nsubj
78	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	76 designs	acl:relcl
79	;	;	PUNCT	_	84 simpering	punct
80	Yet	yet	CCONJ	_	84 simpering	cc
81	ah	ah	INTJ	_	84 simpering	discourse
82	!	!	PUNCT	_	81 ah	punct
83	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	84 simpering	nsubj
84	simpering	simper	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 noise	appos
85	Wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	84 simpering	obj
86	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 noise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	humour		Some			tree rules
2	is	would	mild humour		of noise and gall; with luring tongues to sorts's houses and Ev'n	tree rules
3	languish	infinitive				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	cajole	infinitive				vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	glance	infinitive				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
6	lure	gerund				vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	lady		language			tree rules
8	walk	present	sorts = sort	the street		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme street=Trajectory
9	hide	present	sorts = sort	sorts's true designs not said here		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent design=Patient
10	simper	gerund	these	Wolves		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Topic
11	design		sorts = sort			nom design «act transitive»: 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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