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title: But there are other things as hard, or perhaps a little harder, to b… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But there are other things as hard, or perhaps a little harder, to be done before you can even have the privilege of being devoured by the dragon. Who acts: other things, you, dragon. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 4, with its dependency tree and th
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 18

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But there are other things as hard, or perhaps a little harder, to be done before you can even have the privilege of being devoured by the dragon.

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**Who acts:** other things, you, dragon · **What happens:** be, do, have, devour · **To what, where:** privilege

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other things, you, dragon), 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:pg976:28:18
# text = But there are other things as hard, or perhaps a little harder, to be done before you can even have the privilege of being devoured by the dragon.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
6	as	as	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obl	_	_
13	harder	hard	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	_
18	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	even	even	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	privilege	privilege	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	devoured	devour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
28	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | other things |  |  | there |  | hard *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive · passive | other things *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V» |
| 3 | **have** | can | you | the privilege |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent privilege=Patient |
| 4 | **devour** | gerund · passive | the dragon | the privilege *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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