The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 45

At these words the King broke into piteous cries, took his wife's hands in his own, and assured her that it was useless to speak to him of a second marriage.

Who acts: King, it · What happens: break, take, assure, be, speak · To what, where: words, piteous cries, hands, wife, King · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Towards Her"]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, it), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 words	case
2	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 words	det
3	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 took	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 King	det
5	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 broke	nsubj
6	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 words	acl:relcl
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 cries	case
8	piteous	piteous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cries	amod
9	cries	cry	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 broke	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 words	punct
11	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 wife	nmod:poss
13	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hands	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 wife	case
15	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 took	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 own	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 own	nmod:poss
18	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 took	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 assured	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 assured	cc
21	assured	assure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 took	conj
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 assured	iobj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 useless	mark
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 useless	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 useless	cop
26	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 assured	ccomp
27	to	to	PART	_	28 speak	mark
28	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 useless	xcomp
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 speak	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 marriage	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 marriage	det
33	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	34 marriage	amod
34	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 useless	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	break	past	the King	this words not said here			into piteous cries result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent word=Patient into cry=Result
2	take	past		King's wife's hands		this words	in King's own	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hand=Value in own=Location
3	assure	past			wife			vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
4	is	past	it				of a second marriage; useless property	tree rules
5	speak speech: other	to-infinitive			King			vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-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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