Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 54

Then the Lady Clare said to her husband, "We have more than a hundred horses in the stables, let us, therefore, cause one of them to be slain, that you and I and the children may have a morsel of meat, for indeed we have not had aught for these three days past."

Who acts: Lady Clare, We, husband · What happens: say, have, let, cause, be, not have · To what, where: husband, hundred horses, stables, us, one, morsel · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of What Befell At Montalban. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lady Clare, We, husband), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Clare	det
3	Lady	Lady	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Clare	compound
4	Clare	Clare	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 husband	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 husband	nmod:poss
8	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
11	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 have	nsubj
12	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
13	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	16 hundred	advmod
14	than	than	ADP	_	13 more	fixed
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 hundred	det
16	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 horses	nummod
17	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 have	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 stables	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 stables	det
20	stables	stable	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 horses	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 let	punct
22	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 have	parataxis
23	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 let	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 therefore	punct
25	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	22 let	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 cause	punct
27	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 let	advcl
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 cause	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 one	nmod
31	to	to	PART	_	33 slain	mark
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 slain	cop
33	slain	slain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 cause	advcl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 have	punct
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 have	mark
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	43 have	nsubj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 I	cc
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 you	conj
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 children	cc
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 children	det
41	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 you	conj
42	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 have	aux
43	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 cause	conj
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 morsel	det
45	morsel	morsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 have	obj
46	of	of	ADP	_	47 meat	case
47	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 morsel	nmod
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 aught	punct
49	for	for	ADP	_	55 aught	case
50	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	54 had	advmod
51	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	54 had	nsubj
52	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	54 had	aux
53	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	54 had	advmod
54	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	55 aught	amod
55	aught	aught	PRON	PronType=Ind	43 have	parataxis
56	for	for	ADP	_	59 days	case
57	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	59 days	det
58	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	59 days	nummod
59	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	60 past	obl
60	past	past	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 aught	parataxis
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
62	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Lady Clare		Clare's husband		then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to husband=Recipient clause=Topic
2	have in a quote	present	We	hundred horses		the stables			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient
3	let in a quote	infinitive		us				therefore property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme
4	cause in a quote	infinitive		one of stables					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition one=Patient
5	is in a quote	to-infinitive						slain property	tree rules
6	have in a quote	may	Clare's husband = husband	a morsel of meat				aught parataxis	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent morsel=Patient
7	not have in a quote	present · perfect	we					indeed property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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: «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Project Gutenberg book 75339 (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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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 54