Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, sentence 40

Nor must I forget to say, that all the birds in the whole world hopped about upon the newly-blossoming trees, and sang together, in a prodigious ecstasy of joy.

Who acts: I, birds · What happens: forget, not say, hop about, blossom, sing · To what, where: blossoming trees, prodigious ecstasy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, birds), 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	Nor	nor	INTJ	_	4 forget	discourse
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 forget	aux
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 forget	nsubj
4	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 say	mark
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 forget	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hopped	punct
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 hopped	mark
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 birds	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 birds	det
11	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 hopped	nsubj
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 world	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 world	det
14	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 world	amod
15	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 birds	nmod
16	hopped	hop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 forget	parataxis
17	about	about	ADV	_	16 hopped	advmod
18	upon	upon	ADP	_	23 trees	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 trees	det
20	newly	newly	ADV	_	22 blossoming	advmod
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 newly	punct
22	blossoming	blossom	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 trees	amod
23	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 hopped	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sang	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 sang	cc
26	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 hopped	conj
27	together	together	ADV	_	26 sang	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 ecstasy	punct
29	in	in	ADP	_	32 ecstasy	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 ecstasy	det
31	prodigious	prodigious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 ecstasy	amod
32	ecstasy	ecstasy	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sang	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 joy	case
34	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 ecstasy	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 forget	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	forget	must	I			tree rules
2	not say speech: assert	to-infinitive	I not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	hop about	past	all birds in the whole world	the blossoming trees	about property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon tree=Trajectory
4	blossom	gerund			newly property	vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	sing speech: express	past	all birds in the whole world not said here	a prodigious ecstasy of joy	together property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ecstasy=Location

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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