--- title: Some of them mild and gentle-humour'd be, Of noise and gall, and ran… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics description: 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, b --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/7/49/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/) / [\_thomas Bodkin\_, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/7/) / 49 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg29021:7:49 # text = 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! 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 8 nsubj _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 nmod _ _ 4 mild mild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 gentle gentle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 humour humour NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 10 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 13 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 Of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 noise noise NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 gall gall NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 rancour rancour NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 19 wholly wholly ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 Who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 23 tame tame ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 familiar familiar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 conj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 complaisance complaisance NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod:desc _ _ 30 Ogle Ogle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 leer leer NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 languish languish VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 cajole cajole VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 34 conj _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 glance glance VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 36 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ; ; PUNCT : _ 42 punct _ _ 40 With with ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 luring lure VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 42 amod _ _ 42 tongues tongue NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 45 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 nsubj _ _ 46 wond'rous wond'rous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 amod _ _ 47 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 49 Follow follow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 amod _ _ 50 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 amod _ _ 51 ladies lady NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 nmod _ _ 52 as as SCONJ IN _ 54 mark _ _ 53 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 54 nsubj _ _ 54 walk walk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 51 acl _ _ 55 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 56 det _ _ 56 street street NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 57 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 58 Ev'n Ev'n PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 conj _ _ 59 to to ADP IN _ 62 case _ _ 60 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 62 nmod:poss _ _ 61 very very ADV RB _ 62 advmod _ _ 62 houses house NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 63 , , PUNCT , _ 66 punct _ _ 64 nay nay INTJ UH _ 66 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 65 , , PUNCT , _ 66 punct _ _ 66 bedside bedside NOUN NN Number=Sing 62 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 67 , , PUNCT , _ 70 punct _ _ 68 And and CCONJ CC _ 70 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 69 , , PUNCT , _ 70 punct _ _ 70 artful artful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 66 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 71 , , PUNCT , _ 76 punct _ _ 72 tho though ADP IN _ 76 case _ SpaceAfter=No 73 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 76 punct _ _ 74 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 76 nmod:poss _ _ 75 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 76 amod _ _ 76 designs design NOUN NNS Number=Plur 70 obl _ _ 77 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 78 nsubj _ _ 78 hide hide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 76 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 79 ; ; PUNCT , _ 84 punct _ _ 80 Yet yet CCONJ CC _ 84 cc _ _ 81 ah ah INTJ UH _ 84 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 82 ! ! PUNCT . _ 81 punct _ _ 83 these this PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 84 nsubj _ _ 84 simpering simper VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 appos _ _ 85 Wolves wolf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 84 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 86 ! ! PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/7/48/) - next →: [sentence 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/7/50/) - ↑ back to [\_thomas Bodkin\_, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/7/)