Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 68

But now, instead of emitting jets of flame and streams of sulphurous vapor, they breathed the very sweetest of cow breath.

Who acts: streets · What happens: emit, breathe · To what, where: jets

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (streets), 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	_	6 emitting	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 emitting	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 emitting	punct
4	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	6 emitting	mark
5	of	of	ADP	_	4 instead	fixed
6	emitting	emit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 breathed	advcl
7	jets	jet	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 emitting	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 flame	case
9	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 jets	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 streams	cc
11	streams	stream	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 flame	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 vapor	case
13	sulphurous	sulphurous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 vapor	amod
14	vapor	vapor	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 streams	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 emitting	punct
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 breathed	nsubj
17	breathed	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sweetest	det
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 sweetest	advmod
20	sweetest	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 breathed	advcl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 breath	case
22	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 breath	compound
23	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sweetest	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 breathed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	emit	gerund	streets = street not said here	jets of flame and streams of sulphurous vapor			now		vn substance_emission-43.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Source jet=Theme
2	breathe	past	streets = street						vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: 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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