--- title: Only his horned head belonged to a bull; and yet, somehow or other,… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Only his horned head belonged to a bull; and yet, somehow or other, he looked like a bull all over, preposterously waddling on his hind legs; or, if you happened to view him in another way, he seemed wholly a man, and all the more monstrous for being so. Who acts: horned head, head, you, Theseus. 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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 (horned head, head, you, Theseus), 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:pg976:6:23 # text = Only his horned head belonged to a bull; and yet, somehow or other, he looked like a bull all over, preposterously waddling on his hind legs; or, if you happened to view him in another way, he seemed wholly a man, and all the more monstrous for being so. 1 Only only ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 2 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 horned horned ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 belonged belong VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 bull bull NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 yet yet ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 somehow somehow ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 19 like like ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 bull bull NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 all all ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 over over ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 preposterously preposterously ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 waddling waddle VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ _ 27 on on ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 29 hind hind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ; ; PUNCT : _ 45 punct _ _ 32 or or CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 34 if if SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 35 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 advcl _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 view view VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ _ 39 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 42 det _ _ 42 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 44 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 45 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 46 wholly wholly ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 47 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 50 and and CCONJ CC _ 54 cc _ _ 51 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 54 det:predet _ _ 52 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 53 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 54 advmod _ _ 54 monstrous monstrous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 parataxis _ _ 55 for for ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 56 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 57 cop _ _ 57 so so ADV RB _ 54 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 58 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **belong** | past | Theseus's horned head | | | | | to a bull | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **look** | past | head | | | | | like a bull; over, somehow *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **waddle** | gerund | head *not said here* | | | Theseus's hind legs | | preposterously *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leg=Trajectory | | 4 | **happen** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | you | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **view** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | Theseus | | another way | | | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | | 6 | **seem** | past | Theseus | a man | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **is** | gerund | | | | | | so *property* | tree rules | 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 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/6/22/) - next →: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/6/24/) - ↑ back to [The Minotaur., part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/6/)