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title: It ought to be considered, too, that the dragon people were made for… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It ought to be considered, too, that the dragon people were made for nothing else; whereas other mortals were born to love and help one another. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 51

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It ought to be considered, too, that the dragon people were made for nothing else; whereas other mortals were born to love and help one another.

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**What happens:** consider, make, bear, love, help · **To what, where:** blast, dragon people, other mortals, one

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg976:13:51
# text = It ought to be considered, too, that the dragon people were made for nothing else; whereas other mortals were born to love and help one another.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	considered	consider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	14	obl	_	_
17	else	else	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	whereas	whereas	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	mortals	mortal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	love	love	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
28	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	obj	_	_
29	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	28	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consider** | ought · passive |  | blast |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute |
| 2 | **make** | past · passive |  | dragon people |  |  |  | for nothing | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for nothing=Asset |
| 3 | **bear** | past · passive |  | other mortals |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **love** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **help** | infinitive |  | one |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Beneficiary |

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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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