Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 60
They are all, I am happy to say (unless we except Clover), in excellent health and spirits.
Who acts: sorts · What happens: be, say · To what, where: Clover · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Wayside. Introductory.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sorts), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 happy | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 happy | cop |
| 3 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 happy | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 happy | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 happy | nsubj |
| 6 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 happy | cop |
| 7 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 say | mark |
| 9 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 happy | xcomp |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 Clover | punct |
| 11 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 14 Clover | case |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 Clover | nsubj |
| 13 | except | except | ADP | _ | 14 Clover | case |
| 14 | Clover | Clover | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 say | obj |
| 15 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 14 Clover | punct |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 health | punct |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 health | case |
| 18 | excellent | excellent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 health | amod |
| 19 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 say | parataxis |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 spirits | cc |
| 21 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 health | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 happy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | sorts = sort | all, happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | sorts = sort not said here | Clover | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent clover=Topic |
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: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (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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