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title: But now, instead of emitting jets of flame and streams of sulphurous… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But now, instead of emitting jets of flame and streams of sulphurous vapor, they breathed the very sweetest of cow breath. Who acts: streets. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 68

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

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

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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.

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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:pg976:29:68
# text = But now, instead of emitting jets of flame and streams of sulphurous vapor, they breathed the very sweetest of cow breath.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	6	mark	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	fixed	_	_
6	emitting	emit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
7	jets	jet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	streams	stream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	sulphurous	sulphurous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	vapor	vapor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	breathed	breathe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	very	very	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	sweetest	sweet	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	advcl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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