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title: There is a furnace in each of their stomachs; and they breathe such… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 20

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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.

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

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg976:28:20
# text = 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.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	furnace	furnace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	stomachs	stomach	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	breathe	breathe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
14	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	mouths	mouth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	nostrils	nostril	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
25	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	28	nsubj	_	_
26	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	hitherto	hitherto	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	conj	_	_
29	nigh	nigh	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	_
31	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	aux:pass	_	_
33	instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	burned	burn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	advcl	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
37	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
39	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	cinder	cinder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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» |

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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.

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**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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