The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 66

Near it a reservoir had been fashioned of four sorts of stone—touchstone, pure stone, marble, and loadstone.

Who acts: reservoir · What happens: be, sort · To what, where: wonder, stone

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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 (reservoir), 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	Near	near	ADP	_	2 it	case
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fashioned	obl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 reservoir	det
4	reservoir	reservoir	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fashioned	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fashioned	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 fashioned	cop
7	fashioned	fashioned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 sorts	case
9	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 sorts	nummod
10	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fashioned	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 stone	case
12	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sorts	nmod
13	—	-	PUNCT	_	14 touchstone	punct
14	touchstone	touchstone	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sorts	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 stone	punct
16	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 stone	amod
17	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 touchstone	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 marble	punct
19	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 touchstone	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 loadstone	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 loadstone	cc
22	loadstone	loadstone	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 touchstone	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 fashioned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect	a reservoir			wonder		of four sorts of stone and touchstone and pure stone and marble and loadstone; fashioned property	tree rules
2	sort			stone					nom sort «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: «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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