Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 15

We are apt to grow faint, unless at every breath we can snuff up the salt breeze of the ocean.

Who acts: We, ocean · What happens: be, grow, snuff up, breeze · To what, where: salt breeze, breath

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., 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 (We, ocean), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 apt	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 apt	cop
3	apt	apt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 grow	mark
5	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 apt	xcomp
6	faint	faint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 grow	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 snuff	punct
8	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	14 snuff	mark
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 breath	case
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 breath	det
11	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 snuff	obl
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 snuff	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 snuff	aux
14	snuff	snuff	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 apt	conj
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 snuff	compound:prt
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 breeze	det
17	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 breeze	compound
18	breeze	breeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 snuff	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 ocean	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 ocean	det
21	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 breeze	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 apt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	We			apt property	tree rules
2	grow	to-infinitive	We not said here			faint property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	snuff up a condition, not said to happen	can	we	the salt breeze of the ocean	every breath		tree rules
4	breeze		the ocean				nom breeze «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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