The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1, sentence 113

And what besides gave them disgust and aversion, was his having already been married to several wives, and nobody ever knew what became of them.

Who acts: besides, One, nobody · What happens: give, have, marry, know, become · To what, where: disgust, beauties · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (besides, One, nobody), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 gave	cc
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 gave	obj
3	besides	beside	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	iobj
6	disgust	disgust	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 aversion	cc
8	aversion	aversion	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 disgust	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 having	punct
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 having	aux
11	his	his	PRON	Gender=Masc Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 having	nsubj
12	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 gave	advcl
13	already	already	ADV	_	15 married	advmod
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 married	aux:pass
15	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 having	xcomp
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 wives	case
17	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 wives	amod
18	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 married	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 knew	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 knew	cc
21	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	23 knew	nsubj
22	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	23 knew	advmod
23	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	parataxis
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 became	nsubj
25	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 knew	ccomp
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 them	case
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 became	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	besides	disgust and aversion	beauties = beauty			tree rules
2	have	past · progressive	One					tree rules
3	marry	participle · passive	One not said here				to several wives	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: to wife=Co-Patient
4	know	past	nobody			ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	become	past					of beauties = beauty	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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