Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Bridge of Mantryble, sentence 33

There be but twenty of them, or, at the most thirty; let us ride straight against them," and this advice seemed good to them all.

Who acts: you, advice · What happens: be, ride, seem · To what, where: haste

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Bridge of Mantryble. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, advice), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 be	expl
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 let	cop
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 thirty	cc
4	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 thirty	compound
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 twenty	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 thirty	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 thirty	cc
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 or	punct
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 most	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 most	det
12	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 thirty	nmod
13	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 be	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 let	punct
15	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 let	obj
17	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 let	xcomp
18	straight	straight	ADV	_	17 ride	advmod
19	against	against	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 ride	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 let	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 let	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 seemed	cc
24	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 advice	det
25	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 seemed	nsubj
26	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 let	conj
27	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 seemed	xcomp
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 them	case
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 seemed	obl
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 them	nmod:unmarked
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here		us obj; let property	tree rules
2	ride	infinitive	you not said here		against haste; straight property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	seem in a quote	past	this advice	haste	good property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme

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 the Bridge of Mantryble, sentence 33

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Bridge of Mantryble, sentence 33