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title: And what besides gave them disgust and aversion, was his having alre… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1, with its dependency tree 
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, \_thomas Bodkin\_, part 1, sentence 113

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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.

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

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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 (besides, One, nobody), 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:pg29021:7:113
# text = 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.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
3	besides	beside	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	disgust	disgust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	aversion	aversion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Gender=Masc|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
13	already	already	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	xcomp	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	wives	wife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	23	nsubj	_	_
22	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	23	advmod	_	_
23	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
24	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	25	nsubj	_	_
25	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	ccomp	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	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 | **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 |

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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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