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title: The doorkeeper went, and what he saw was a lank, grey beggarman; hal… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The doorkeeper went, and what he saw was a lank, grey beggarman; half his sword bared behind his haunch, his two 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 green
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 78

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The doorkeeper went, and what he saw was a lank, grey beggarman; half his sword bared behind his haunch, his two 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 green wand of holly.

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

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7885:20:78
# text = The doorkeeper went, and what he saw was a lank, grey beggarman; half his sword bared behind his haunch, his two 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 green wand of holly.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	doorkeeper	doorkeeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	14	nsubj	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	lank	lank	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	beggarman	beggarman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	18	det:predet	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	bared	bare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	haunch	haunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	parataxis	_	_
27	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
29	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
30	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	wayish	wayish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
36	sousing	souse	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	35	acl	_	_
37	about	about	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	tips	tip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
44	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	45	nummod	_	_
45	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nmod	_	_
46	out	out	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
47	through	through	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
49	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
52	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nmod:poss	_	_
53	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	54	nummod	_	_
54	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	conj	_	_
55	out	out	ADV	RB	_	60	advmod	_	_
56	through	through	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
57	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	60	nmod:poss	_	_
58	scant	scant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	amod	_	_
59	tattered	tatter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	60	amod	_	_
60	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	68	punct	_	_
62	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	68	cc	_	_
63	in	in	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
64	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	65	nmod:poss	_	_
65	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	68	obl	_	_
66	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	68	det	_	_
67	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	68	amod	_	_
68	wand	wand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
69	of	of	ADP	IN	_	70	case	_	_
70	holly	holly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	68	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the doorkeeper | a green wand of holly |  |  |  |  | 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 |  |  |  |  | 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 and the tips of doorkeeper's two ears through doorkeeper's old hat and doorkeeper's two shoulders through doorkeeper's scant tattered cloak *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 |

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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.

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**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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