Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 26

He turns in one turn, and goes up and down and round in one sole movement.

Who acts: fish · What happens: turn, go up · To what, where: one turn

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turns	nsubj
2	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 turn	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 turn	nummod
5	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 goes	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 goes	cc
8	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 turns	conj
9	up	up	ADV	_	8 goes	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 down	cc
11	down	down	ADV	_	9 up	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 round	cc
13	round	round	ADV	_	9 up	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 movement	case
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 movement	nummod
16	sole	sole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 movement	amod
17	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 goes	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 turns	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	fish			one turn			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in turn=Trajectory
2	go up	present	fish not said here					in one sole movement	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in movement=Attribute

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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