---
title: There be but twenty of them, or, at the most thirty; let us ride str… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Bridge of Mantryble, with its dependency tree a
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/20/33/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/) / [Of the Bridge of Mantryble](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/20/) / 33

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
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.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** you, advice · **What happens:** be, ride, seem · **To what, where:** haste

<!-- .vabout -->
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.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75339:20:33
# text = 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.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
4	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	compound	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	nmod	_	_
13	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
15	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	against	against	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
27	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	_
30	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/20/32/)
- next →: [sentence 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/20/34/)
- ↑ back to [Of the Bridge of Mantryble](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/20/)