Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 20

There is a furnace in each of their stomachs; and they breathe such hot fire out of their mouths and nostrils, that nobody has hitherto gone nigh them without being instantly burned to a small, black cinder.

Who acts: furnace, bulls, that · What happens: be, breathe, go, burn · To what, where: such hot fire, mouths, bulls

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 (furnace, bulls, that), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 furnace	det
4	furnace	furnace	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 each	case
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 furnace	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 stomachs	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 stomachs	nmod:poss
9	stomachs	stomach	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 each	nmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 breathe	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 breathe	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 breathe	nsubj
13	breathe	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 is	parataxis
14	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 fire	amod
15	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 fire	amod
16	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 breathe	obj
17	out	out	ADP	_	20 mouths	case
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 mouths	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 mouths	nmod:poss
20	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 breathe	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 nostrils	cc
22	nostrils	nostril	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 mouths	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 gone	punct
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 gone	nsubj
25	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	28 gone	nsubj
26	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 gone	aux
27	hitherto	hitherto	ADV	_	28 gone	advmod
28	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 mouths	conj
29	nigh	nigh	ADV	_	30 them	advmod
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 gone	obl
31	without	without	SCONJ	_	34 burned	mark
32	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 burned	aux:pass
33	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	34 burned	advmod
34	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 gone	advcl
35	to	to	ADP	_	40 cinder	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 cinder	det
37	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 cinder	amod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 small	punct
39	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 cinder	amod
40	cinder	cinder	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 burned	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	present	a furnace in each		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	breathe	present	bulls = bull	such hot fire	bulls's mouths and nostrils		vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme
3	go	present · perfect	that	bulls = bull		hitherto property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	burn	gerund · passive	that not said here			to a small black cinder; instantly property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»

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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