--- title: He, too, had horns, and hairy ears, and goats' feet; but, being acqu… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: He, too, had horns, and hairy ears, and goats' feet; but, being acquainted with Mother Ceres, he answered her question as civilly as he knew how, and invited her to taste some milk and honey out of a wooden bowl. Who acts: shepherd, child. 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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 (shepherd, child), 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:pg976:21:95 # text = He, too, had horns, and hairy ears, and goats' feet; but, being acquainted with Mother Ceres, he answered her question as civilly as he knew how, and invited her to taste some milk and honey out of a wooden bowl. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 too too ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 horns horn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 hairy hairy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 goats goat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ' 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 19 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 cop _ _ 20 acquainted acquainted ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 Mother Mother PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 23 Ceres Ceres PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 27 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 as as ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 civilly civilly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 xcomp _ _ 31 as as SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ _ 34 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 33 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 invited invite VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 38 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 taste taste VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 xcomp _ _ 41 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 42 det _ _ 42 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 honey honey NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 conj _ _ 45 out out ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 46 of of ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 47 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 48 wooden wooden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 bowl bowl NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | shepherd | horns and hairy ears and goats's feet | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horn=Patient | | 2 | **is** | gerund | shepherd *not said here* | | | | | with Mother; acquainted *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | shepherd | child's question | | | | civilly *property* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality | | 4 | **know** | past | shepherd | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **invite** | past | shepherd *not said here* | child | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **taste** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | child *not said here* | some milk and honey | | a wooden bowl | | | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent milk=Theme out bowl=Location | | 7 | **question** | | child | | | | | | nom question «communication transitive»: poss=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. - ← previous: [sentence 94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/21/94/) - next →: [sentence 96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/21/96/) - ↑ back to [The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/21/)