Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 9

All these structures were built neither of stone nor wood.

What happens: build · To what, where: structures

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 structures	det:predet
2	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 structures	det
3	structures	structure	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 built	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 built	aux:pass
5	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	8 stone	det
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 stone	case
8	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 built	obj
9	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	10 wood	cc
10	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stone	conj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 built	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past · passive		all structures					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary stone=Product

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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