Seeing clearly: Frame Semantic, Psycholinguistic, and Cross ...

CHAPTER 2. A FRAME SEMANTIC ANALYSIS 68
Frame see accompany
aktionsart accomplishment
type event
cat V
lexm see
Uses accompany [acc]
2
3
roles:
6Seerhuman
=
6
6Seen
6
human =
6
6Goal
=
4
acc.m1.Src =
acc.Part1 7
acc.Part2 7
acc.m1.Goal 7
5
acc.m2.Src
restr: protect(Seer,Seen)
(31) BNC: \It'll be no trouble at all to see you to your door," he had lied.
see accompany means to accompany someone who is leaving or arriving on some part
of their journey, often to some departure point. seer and seen are both human, goal is
the point of departure or arrival. The accompany sense implies a polite social situation,
and that the seer is \protecting" or \guiding" the seen. See outtreats the entrance of
the building as the point of leave-taking. See [a person] to always speci es the point of
leave-taking; see you home is essentially a more idiomatic way ofsaying see you to the door
of your house (cf. Ex. (31)).
These uses must inherit some of their meaning from the more general frame ac-
company (shown above) which also licenses VPs such aswalk you home, walk you to your
car, show her up (i.e. to the parlor on the second oor). Take someone home and bring
someone home can also be included, provided that we are clear that home is treated here
strictly as a destination. All of the patterns for the sense accompany of see (and similar
senses of walk, drive, take, run and bring) are therefore distinct from those in Ex. (32);
in Ex. (32), the object of the PP-to is an expression for something that is metonymic for a
conventional activity; di erent types of metonymy are used in each of three examples (cf.
Norvig & Lako 1987 on the semantics of take).