Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 18

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 · What happens: be, do, have, devour · To what, where: privilege

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.

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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 are	cc
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 are	expl
3	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 things	amod
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 are	nsubj
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 hard	advmod
7	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 are	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 harder	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 harder	cc
10	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	13 harder	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 little	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 harder	obl
13	harder	hard	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 are	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 done	punct
15	to	to	PART	_	17 done	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 done	aux:pass
17	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 harder	advcl
18	before	before	SCONJ	_	22 have	mark
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 have	nsubj
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 have	aux
21	even	even	ADV	_	22 have	advmod
22	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 done	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 privilege	det
24	privilege	privilege	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 have	obj
25	of	of	SCONJ	_	27 devoured	mark
26	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 devoured	aux:pass
27	devoured	devour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 privilege	acl
28	by	by	ADP	_	30 dragon	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 dragon	det
30	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 devoured	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 are	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	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

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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