Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 125

The doorkeeper went, and what he saw was a lank grey beggarman, half his sword bared behind his haunch, his two old shoes full of cold road-a-wayish water sousing about him, the tips of his two ears out through his old hat, his two shoulders out through his scant tattered cloak, and in his hand a three-stringed harp.

Who acts: doorkeeper, sword, cold wayish water · What happens: go, see, be, bare, souse, tatter · To what, where: stringed harp, lank grey beggarman, haunch

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 (doorkeeper, sword, cold wayish water), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 doorkeeper	det
2	doorkeeper	doorkeeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 what	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 what	cc
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 beggarman	nsubj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 saw	nsubj
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 what	acl:relcl
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 beggarman	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 beggarman	det
11	lank	lank	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 beggarman	amod
12	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 beggarman	amod
13	beggarman	beggarman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bared	punct
15	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	17 sword	det:predet
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 sword	nmod:poss
17	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bared	nsubj
18	bared	bare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 beggarman	conj
19	behind	behind	ADP	_	21 haunch	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 haunch	nmod:poss
21	haunch	haunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bared	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 shoes	punct
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 shoes	nmod:poss
24	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 shoes	nummod
25	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 shoes	amod
26	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 beggarman	parataxis
27	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 shoes	amod
28	of	of	ADP	_	35 water	case
29	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 water	amod
30	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 water	nsubj
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 water	punct
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 water	det
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 a	punct
34	wayish	wayish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 water	amod
35	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 full	obl
36	sousing	souse	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 water	acl
37	about	about	ADP	_	38 him	case
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 sousing	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 tips	punct
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 tips	det
41	tips	tip	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 beggarman	nmod
42	of	of	ADP	_	45 ears	case
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 ears	nmod:poss
44	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	45 ears	nummod
45	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 tips	nmod
46	out	out	ADV	_	50 hat	advmod
47	through	through	ADP	_	50 hat	case
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 hat	nmod:poss
49	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 hat	amod
50	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 ears	nmod
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 shoulders	punct
52	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 shoulders	nmod:poss
53	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	54 shoulders	nummod
54	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 hat	conj
55	out	out	ADV	_	60 cloak	advmod
56	through	through	ADP	_	60 cloak	case
57	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	60 cloak	nmod:poss
58	scant	scant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 cloak	amod
59	tattered	tatter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	60 cloak	amod
60	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 shoulders	nmod
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	70 harp	punct
62	and	and	CCONJ	_	70 harp	cc
63	in	in	ADP	_	65 hand	case
64	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	65 hand	nmod:poss
65	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	70 harp	obl
66	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	70 harp	det
67	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	69 stringed	nummod
68	-	-	PUNCT	_	67 three	punct
69	stringed	stringed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	70 harp	amod
70	harp	harp	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
71	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	the doorkeeper	a stringed harp			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past	doorkeeper				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	past		a lank grey beggarman		the tips of doorkeeper's two ears through doorkeeper's old hat and doorkeeper's two shoulders through doorkeeper's scant tattered cloak nmod	tree rules
4	bare	past	doorkeeper's sword		doorkeeper's haunch		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	souse	gerund	a cold wayish water not said here			about doorkeeper	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	tatter	participle					vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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: «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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