Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 92

By her magic arts she changes every human being into the brute, beast, or fowl whom he happens most to resemble."

Who acts: Circe, human, fowl · What happens: change, be, happen, resemble · To what, where: brute, most

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Circe, human, fowl), 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	By	by	ADP	_	4 arts	case
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 arts	nmod:poss
3	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 arts	amod
4	arts	art	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 changes	obl
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 changes	nsubj
6	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 human	det
8	human	human	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 brute	nsubj
9	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 brute	cop
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 brute	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 brute	det
12	brute	brute	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 changes	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 beast	punct
14	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 brute	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fowl	punct
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 fowl	cc
17	fowl	fowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 brute	conj
18	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 happens	nsubj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 happens	nsubj
20	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 fowl	acl:relcl
21	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 happens	obl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 resemble	mark
23	resemble	resemble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 happens	xcomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 changes	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 changes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	change	present	Circe			by Circe's magic arts	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	gerund	every human		the brute and beast or fowl		tree rules
3	happen	present	fowl	most			tree rules
4	resemble	to-infinitive	fowl not said here				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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