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title: Ill do they listen to all sorts of tongues, Since some inchant and l… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: Ill do they listen to all sorts of tongues, Since some inchant and lure like Syrens' songs. Who acts: beauties, Syrens. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, \_thomas Bodkin\_, part 1, sentence 46

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

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

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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.

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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:pg29021:7:46
# text = Ill do they listen to all sorts of tongues, Since some inchant and lure like Syrens' songs.
1	Ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	tongues	tongue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	Since	since	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	inchant	inchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	lure	lure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	Syrens	syren	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | 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 |

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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 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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