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description: 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. A 
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 54

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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."

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**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

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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.

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75339:11:54
# text = 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."
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Lady	Lady	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Clare	Clare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
13	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	16	advmod	_	_
14	than	than	ADP	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	stables	stable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
23	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
28	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nmod	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	cop	_	_
33	slain	slain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
35	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
36	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	conj	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	conj	_	_
42	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	morsel	morsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
49	for	for	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
50	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
51	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
52	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
53	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	54	advmod	_	_
54	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	55	amod	_	_
55	aught	aught	PRON	NN	PronType=Ind	43	parataxis	_	_
56	for	for	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
57	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	59	det	_	_
58	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	59	nummod	_	_
59	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	60	obl	_	_
60	past	past	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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:** «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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