Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 51
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.
What happens: consider, make, bear, love, help · To what, where: blast, dragon people, other mortals, one
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.
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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 considered | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 considered | aux |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 considered | mark |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 considered | aux:pass |
| 5 | considered | consider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 too | punct |
| 7 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 considered | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 made | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dragon | det |
| 11 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 people | compound |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 made | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 made | aux:pass |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 considered | conj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 nothing | case |
| 16 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 14 made | obl |
| 17 | else | else | ADV | _ | 16 nothing | advmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 born | punct |
| 19 | whereas | whereas | SCONJ | _ | 23 born | mark |
| 20 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 mortals | amod |
| 21 | mortals | mortal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 born | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 born | aux:pass |
| 23 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 considered | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 love | mark |
| 25 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 born | xcomp |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 help | cc |
| 27 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 love | conj |
| 28 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 help | obj |
| 29 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 one | fixed |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 considered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | 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 |
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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