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title: It gave one roar, and the son of earth, echo of the rocks, called to… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It gave one roar, and the son of earth, echo of the rocks, called to its screech, and it drove the loch in spindrift from end to end, and in a twinkling it went out of sight. Who acts: head. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Sea-maiden, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 98

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It gave one roar, and the son of earth, echo of the rocks, called to its screech, and it drove the loch in spindrift from end to end, and in a twinkling it went out of sight.

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**Who acts:** head · **What happens:** give, call, drive, twinkle, go out, screech · **To what, where:** one roar, rocks, screech, loch, spindrift, sight · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Sea-maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head), 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:pg7885:21:98
# text = It gave one roar, and the son of earth, echo of the rocks, called to its screech, and it drove the loch in spindrift from end to end, and in a twinkling it went out of sight.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	roar	roar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	echo	echo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	screech	screech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	loch	loch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	spindrift	spindrift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	conj	_	_
37	twinkling	twinkle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	36	acl	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	ccomp	_	_
40	out	out	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | head | one roar |  |  |  | the son of earth and echo of the rocks *obl* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roar=Theme |
| 2 | **call** | participle |  | the rocks *not said here* | head's screech |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to screech=Recipient |
| 3 | **drive** | past | head | the loch |  | spindrift | from end; to end |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent loch=Theme from end=Destination to end=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **twinkle** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **go out** | past | head | sight |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **screech** |  | head |  |  |  |  |  | nom screech «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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