Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Entertained the King, sentence 31

When they had warmed themselves awhile by the fire, which was blazing in right royal fashion, Ralph cried to his wife, "Let us have supper, Gillian, as quickly as may be, and of the best, for we have had a toilsome day, and may well have a merry night.

Who acts: capons, fire, Ralph, us, we · What happens: warm, blaze, cry, let, have, be · To what, where: capons, right royal fashion, wife, us, supper · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Ralph Entertained the King. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (capons, fire, Ralph, us), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 warmed	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 warmed	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 warmed	aux
4	warmed	warm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 warmed	obj
6	awhile	awhile	ADV	_	4 warmed	advmod
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 fire	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fire	det
9	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 warmed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 blazing	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 blazing	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 blazing	aux
13	blazing	blaze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 fire	acl:relcl
14	in	in	ADV	_	13 blazing	advmod
15	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 fashion	amod
16	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 fashion	amod
17	fashion	fashion	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 blazing	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 cried	punct
19	Ralph	Ralph	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 cried	nsubj
20	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 warmed	parataxis
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 wife	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 wife	nmod:poss
23	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cried	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Let	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 Let	punct
26	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	20 cried	conj
27	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 Let	obj
28	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 Let	xcomp
29	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 have	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 Gillian	punct
31	Gillian	Gillian	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 supper	appos
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 be	punct
33	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	37 be	cc
34	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	33 as	advmod
35	as	as	ADP	_	33 as	fixed
36	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 be	aux
37	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 Let	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 best	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 best	cc
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 best	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 best	det
42	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 cried	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 had	punct
44	for	for	SCONJ	_	47 had	mark
45	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 had	nsubj
46	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 had	aux
47	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	42 best	parataxis
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 day	det
49	toilsome	toilsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 day	amod
50	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 had	obj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 have	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 have	cc
53	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	55 have	aux
54	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	55 have	advmod
55	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 cried	conj
56	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 night	det
57	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 night	amod
58	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 have	obj
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 warmed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	warm	past · perfect	capons = capon	capons = capon			by the fire; awhile property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient
2	blaze	past · progressive	the fire	right royal fashion				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fashion=Theme
3	cry speech: express	past	Ralph		Ralph's wife		of the best	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient
4	let in a quote	infinitive	Ralph not said here	us				tree rules
5	have in a quote	infinitive	us not said here	supper				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Patient
6	be in a quote	may	Ralph not said here					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	have in a quote	present · perfect	we			day		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	have in a quote	may	Ralph not said here			night	well 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, How Ralph Entertained the King, sentence 31