Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 82

When men once turn to brutes, the trifle of man's wit that remains in them adds tenfold to their brutality.

Who acts: men, wit, trifle · What happens: turn, remain, add · To what, where: brutes, tenfold

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., 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 (men, wit, trifle), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 turn	advmod
2	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 turn	nsubj
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 turn	advmod
4	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 adds	advcl
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 brutes	case
6	brutes	brute	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 turn	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 turn	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 trifle	det
9	trifle	trifle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 adds	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 wit	case
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wit	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 man	case
13	wit	wit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 trifle	nmod
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 remains	nsubj
15	remains	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 wit	acl:relcl
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 remains	obl
18	adds	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	tenfold	tenfold	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 adds	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 brutality	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 brutality	nmod:poss
22	brutality	brutality	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 adds	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 adds	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn	present	men		brutes	once property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to brute=Trajectory
2	remain	present	man's wit			in men = man	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in they=Location
3	add speech: assert	present	the trifle of man's wit	tenfold		to men's brutality	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent tenfold=Patient to brutality=Co-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.

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