Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 22

As for his breath--the breath of cattle, you know, is always sweet--it was as fragrant as if he had been grazing on no other food than rosebuds, or at least, the most delicate of clover blossoms.

Who acts: you, cattle, bull · What happens: know, be, graze · To what, where: cattle, least

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, cattle, bull), 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	As	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	4 breath	case
2	for	for	ADP	_	1 As	fixed
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 breath	nmod:poss
4	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sweet	obl
5	--	--	PUNCT	_	7 breath	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 breath	det
7	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 breath	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 cattle	case
9	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 breath	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 know	punct
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 know	nsubj
12	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 cattle	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 breath	punct
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 sweet	cop
15	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	16 sweet	advmod
16	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
17	--	--	PUNCT	_	21 fragrant	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 fragrant	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 fragrant	cop
20	as	as	ADV	_	21 fragrant	advmod
21	fragrant	fragrant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 sweet	conj
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 grazing	mark
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 grazing	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 grazing	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 grazing	aux
26	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 grazing	aux
27	grazing	graze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 fragrant	advcl
28	on	on	ADP	_	31 food	case
29	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	31 food	det
30	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 food	amod
31	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 grazing	obl
32	than	than	ADP	_	33 rosebuds	case
33	rosebuds	rosebud	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 food	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 least	punct
35	or	or	CCONJ	_	37 least	cc
36	at	at	ADP	_	37 least	case
37	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 sweet	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 delicate	punct
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 delicate	det
40	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	41 delicate	advmod
41	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 sweet	conj
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 blossoms	case
43	clover	clover	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 blossoms	compound
44	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 delicate	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 sweet	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	present	you	cattle not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer cattle=Stimulus
2	is	present			least	as bull's breath and the breath of cattle; always, sweet property	tree rules
3	is	past	cattle			fragrant property	tree rules
4	graze	past · perfect · progressive	bull			on no other food than rosebuds	vn dine-39.5 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on food=Patient
5	be					of clover blossoms	tree rules

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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