The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 63

Then Perrault got married to a young lady of whom we know nothing except that her marriage was the subject of some opposition from his powerful employer.

Who acts: we, marriage, work · What happens: marry, know, be · To what, where: Perrault, nothing

This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, marriage, work), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 married	advmod
2	Perrault	Perrault	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 married	nsubj:pass
3	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 married	aux:pass
4	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 lady	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lady	det
7	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lady	amod
8	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 married	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 whom	case
10	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 lady	nmod
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 know	nsubj
12	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 whom	acl:relcl
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 know	obj
14	except	except	ADP	_	20 subject	case
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 subject	mark
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 marriage	nmod:poss
17	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 subject	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 subject	cop
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 subject	det
20	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 nothing	nmod
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 opposition	case
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	23 opposition	det
23	opposition	opposition	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 subject	nmod
24	from	from	ADP	_	27 employer	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 employer	nmod:poss
26	powerful	powerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 employer	amod
27	employer	employer	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 opposition	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 married	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	marry	past · passive		Perrault	then	to a young lady	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to lady=Co-Patient
2	know	present	we	nothing			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
3	is	past	work's marriage			except the subject; of some opposition from Colbert's powerful employer	tree rules
4	marry		work				nom marriage «state 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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