Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 26

Up or down, sideways or endways, it is all one to a fish.

Who acts: fish · What happens: be · To what, where: one

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fish), 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	Up	up	ADV	_	root	root
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 down	cc
3	down	down	ADV	_	1 Up	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sideways	punct
5	sideways	sideways	ADV	_	1 Up	conj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 endways	cc
7	endways	endways	ADV	_	5 sideways	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 one	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 one	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 one	cop
11	all	all	ADV	_	12 one	advmod
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 sideways	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 fish	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 fish	det
15	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 one	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Up	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	fish	one				to a fish; all property	tree rules

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: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (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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