Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 98

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

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.

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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 roar	nummod
4	roar	roar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 son	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 son	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 son	det
8	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 earth	case
10	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 son	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 echo	punct
12	echo	echo	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 earth	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 rocks	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 rocks	det
15	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 echo	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 called	punct
17	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 rocks	acl
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 screech	case
19	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 screech	nmod:poss
20	screech	screech	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 called	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 drove	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 drove	cc
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 drove	nsubj
24	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 loch	det
26	loch	loch	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 drove	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 spindrift	case
28	spindrift	spindrift	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 loch	nmod
29	from	from	ADP	_	30 end	case
30	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 drove	obl
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 end	case
32	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 drove	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 a	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 a	cc
35	in	in	ADP	_	36 a	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 gave	conj
37	twinkling	twinkle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	36 a	acl
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 went	nsubj
39	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 twinkling	ccomp
40	out	out	ADP	_	42 sight	case
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 sight	case
42	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 went	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	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

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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