Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 124

"Go to the door," said he to his doorkeeper, "and see if a soul is in sight who may tell me something about my story-teller."

Who acts: king, soul, sight · What happens: go, say, see, be, tell · To what, where: door, sight, something, king · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story-teller At Fault. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, soul, sight), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
2	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 door	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 door	det
5	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Go	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 doorkeeper	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 doorkeeper	nmod:poss
12	doorkeeper	doorkeeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 see	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 doorkeeper	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 doorkeeper	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 see	cc
16	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 sight	mark
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 soul	det
19	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sight	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 sight	cop
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 sight	case
22	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 see	ccomp
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 tell	nsubj
24	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 tell	aux
25	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 sight	acl:relcl
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 tell	iobj
27	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	25 tell	obj
28	about	about	ADP	_	32 teller	case
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 teller	nmod:poss
30	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 teller	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 story	punct
32	teller	teller	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 something	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 see	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	infinitive				the door		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	past	king					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	see in a quote	infinitive					to king's doorkeeper	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	a soul			sight		tree rules
5	tell speech: assert in a quote	may	sight	something	king		about my story teller	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient something=Topic

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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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