--- title: Then he gave him a handful of hay, for indeed there was nothing else… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics description: Then he gave him a handful of hay, for indeed there was nothing else that he could give, and went back to the Lady Clare and his brethren and said, "Endure till nightfall and you shall have meat. Who acts: Bayard, nothing, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bayard, nothing, you), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg75339:11:70 # text = Then he gave him a handful of hay, for indeed there was nothing else that he could give, and went back to the Lady Clare and his brethren and said, "Endure till nightfall and you shall have meat. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 iobj _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 handful handful NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 hay hay NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 for for SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 11 indeed indeed ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 12 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 13 expl _ _ 13 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 14 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 13 nsubj _ _ 15 else else ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 that that SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 23 back back ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 Lady Lady PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 Clare Clare PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 brethren brethren NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 " " PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 Endure endure VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 ccomp _ _ 36 till till ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 nightfall nightfall NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 39 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 40 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 conj _ _ 42 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | past | Bayard | a handful of hay | beast | | then | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient handful=Theme | | 2 | **be** | past | nothing | | | there | | indeed *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **give** | could | Bayard | | | | | | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **go back** | past | | | | | | to the Lady Clare and Bayard's brethren *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to clare=Result | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **endure** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | till nightfall | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **have** *in a quote* | shall | you | meat | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/11/69/) - next →: [sentence 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/11/71/) - ↑ back to [Of What Befell At Montalban](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/11/)