Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 77

"Go out," said he to his doorkeeper, "and see who or what may be coming."

Who acts: teller · What happens: go out, say, see, come · 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 (teller), 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	6 said	ccomp
3	out	out	ADV	_	2 Go	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 doorkeeper	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 doorkeeper	nmod:poss
10	doorkeeper	doorkeeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 see	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 doorkeeper	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 doorkeeper	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 see	cc
14	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 see	obj
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 coming	cc
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 coming	obj
18	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 coming	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 coming	aux
20	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 who	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 see	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	go out in a quote	infinitive		out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	teller		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	see in a quote	infinitive		to teller's doorkeeper	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer who=Stimulus
4	come in a quote	may · progressive			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location what=Theme

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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