--- title: Why, he was a big, rough, ugly-looking monster, with three separate… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Why, he was a big, rough, ugly-looking monster, with three separate heads, and each of them fiercer than the two others; but fierce as they were, King Pluto patted them all. Who acts: mastiff, others, Pluto. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mastiff, others, Pluto), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg976:20:124 # text = Why, he was a big, rough, ugly-looking monster, with three separate heads, and each of them fiercer than the two others; but fierce as they were, King Pluto patted them all. 1 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 13 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 6 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 rough rough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 10 ugly ugly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 looking look VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 amod _ _ 13 monster monster NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 17 separate separate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 24 nsubj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nmod _ _ 24 fiercer fierce ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 13 parataxis _ _ 25 than than ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 28 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 but but CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 fierce fierce ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 conj _ _ 32 as as SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 33 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 were be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nmod:desc _ _ 37 Pluto Pluto PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 patted pat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 39 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 39 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | gerund | | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **is a** | past | mastiff | a big looking monster and three separate heads | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | past | others *= other* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **pat** | past | Pluto King | others *= other* | | | | | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Experiencer | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 123](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/20/123/) - next →: [sentence 125](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/20/125/) - ↑ back to [The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/20/)