--- title: And to confess the honest truth, he needed the whole; for now the Mi… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: And to confess the honest truth, he needed the whole; for now the Minotaur, turning suddenly about, caught sight of Theseus, and instantly lowered his horribly sharp horns, exactly as a mad bull does when he means to rush against an enemy. Who acts: Minotaur, mad bull. 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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 (Minotaur, mad bull), 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:pg976:6:35 # text = And to confess the honest truth, he needed the whole; for now the Minotaur, turning suddenly about, caught sight of Theseus, and instantly lowered his horribly sharp horns, exactly as a mad bull does when he means to rush against an enemy. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 2 to to PART TO _ 3 mark _ _ 3 confess confess VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 advcl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 honest honest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 needed need VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 16 advmod _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 Minotaur Minotaur PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 turning turn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 acl _ _ 19 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 about about ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 caught catch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 amod _ _ 23 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 appos _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 Theseus Theseus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 instantly instantly ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 lowered lower VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 30 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 31 horribly horribly ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 sharp sharp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 horns horn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 35 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 36 as as SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 mad mad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 bull bull NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 40 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 41 when when SCONJ WRB _ 43 mark _ _ 42 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 43 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 advcl _ _ 44 to to PART TO _ 45 mark _ _ 45 rush rush VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 43 xcomp _ _ 46 against against ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 enemy enemy NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **confess** | to-infinitive | Minotaur *not said here* | the honest truth | | | | | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=Topic | | 2 | **need** | past | Minotaur | the whole | | | | for the Minotaur | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot whole=Theme | | 3 | **turn** | gerund | the Minotaur *not said here* | | | | | about, suddenly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **catch** | participle | | | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **lower** | past | Minotaur *not said here* | Minotaur's sharp horns | | | | instantly *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horn=Theme | | 6 | **do** | present | a mad bull | | | | | exactly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **mean** | present | Minotaur | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **rush** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Minotaur *not said here* | | | a enemy | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against enemy=Trajectory | | 9 | **sight** | | | Theseus | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/6/34/) - next →: [sentence 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/6/36/) - ↑ back to [The Minotaur., part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/6/)