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title: Indeed, except that there was a necessity for it--and that the inner… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Indeed, except that there was a necessity for it--and that the inner life of the legends cannot be come at save by making them entirely one's own property--there is no defense to be made. Who acts: defense. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Wayside. Introductory., with its
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 55

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Indeed, except that there was a necessity for it--and that the inner life of the legends cannot be come at save by making them entirely one's own property--there is no defense to be made.

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**Who acts:** defense · **What happens:** be, not come, make · **To what, where:** necessity, inner life, save, legends

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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 (defense), 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:pg976:2:55
# text = Indeed, except that there was a necessity for it--and that the inner life of the legends cannot be come at save by making them entirely one's own property--there is no defense to be made.
1	Indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	except	except	ADP	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	necessity	necessity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	inner	inner	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	save	save	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
26	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
27	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
30	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	's	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	property	property	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	36	expl	_	_
36	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	parataxis	_	_
37	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	38	det	_	_
38	defense	defense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
40	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	aux:pass	_	_
41	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | a necessity |  |  |  | for necessity; indeed *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **come** | can · passive |  | the inner life of the legends |  | save |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | gerund |  | legends *= legend* |  |  |  | one's own property *obl*; entirely *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product |
| 4 | **be** | present | no defense |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **make** | to-infinitive · passive | no defense *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» |

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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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