Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 23

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 · What happens: belong, look, waddle, happen, view, seem · To what, where: hind legs, Theseus, way, man

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 4. 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	5 belonged	advmod
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 head	nmod:poss
3	horned	horned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 head	amod
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 belonged	nsubj
5	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 bull	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bull	det
8	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 belonged	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 looked	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 somehow	cc
11	yet	yet	ADV	_	13 somehow	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 somehow	punct
13	somehow	somehow	ADV	_	18 looked	advmod
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 other	cc
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 somehow	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 looked	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 looked	nsubj
18	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 belonged	conj
19	like	like	ADP	_	21 bull	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 bull	det
21	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 looked	obl
22	all	all	ADV	_	23 over	advmod
23	over	over	ADV	_	18 looked	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 waddling	punct
25	preposterously	preposterously	ADV	_	26 waddling	advmod
26	waddling	waddle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 looked	advcl
27	on	on	ADP	_	30 legs	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 legs	nmod:poss
29	hind	hind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 legs	amod
30	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 waddling	obl
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 seemed	punct
32	or	or	CCONJ	_	45 seemed	cc
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 or	punct
34	if	if	SCONJ	_	36 happened	mark
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 happened	nsubj
36	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 seemed	advcl
37	to	to	PART	_	38 view	mark
38	view	view	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 happened	xcomp
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 view	obj
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 way	case
41	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	42 way	det
42	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 view	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 happened	punct
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 seemed	nsubj
45	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 belonged	parataxis
46	wholly	wholly	ADV	_	48 man	advmod
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 man	det
48	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 seemed	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 monstrous	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 monstrous	cc
51	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	54 monstrous	det:predet
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 monstrous	det
53	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	54 monstrous	advmod
54	monstrous	monstrous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 seemed	parataxis
55	for	for	ADP	_	57 so	case
56	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	57 so	cop
57	so	so	ADV	_	54 monstrous	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 belonged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	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.

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