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title: Then Perrault got married to a young lady of whom we know nothing ex… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 63

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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.

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

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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.

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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:pg29021:6:63
# text = 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.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	Perrault	Perrault	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nmod	_	_
11	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	12	obj	_	_
14	except	except	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	subject	subject	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
23	opposition	opposition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	employer	employer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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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