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title: They are all, I am happy to say (unless we except Clover), in excell… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They are all, I am happy to say (unless we except Clover), in excellent health and spirits. Who acts: sorts. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Wayside. Introductory., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 60

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They are all, I am happy to say (unless we except Clover), in excellent health and spirits.

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**Who acts:** sorts · **What happens:** be, say · **To what, where:** Clover · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg976:2:60
# text = They are all, I am happy to say (unless we except Clover), in excellent health and spirits.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	all	all	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	except	except	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Clover	Clover	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	excellent	excellent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	health	health	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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.

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**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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