The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 129

At the right, gleaming in the sun, were the five golden cupolas of a splendid church, whose bells rang out, as if they would summon people from all corners of the earth to come and behold the wonder.

Who acts: right, five golden cupolas, bells · What happens: gleam, be, ring out, summon, come · To what, where: sun, right, people, corners, wonder

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (right, five golden cupolas, bells), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 right	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 right	det
3	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 church	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 gleaming	punct
5	gleaming	gleam	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 right	acl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 sun	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sun	det
8	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gleaming	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 church	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cupolas	det
12	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 cupolas	nummod
13	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 cupolas	amod
14	cupolas	cupola	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 church	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 church	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 church	det
17	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 church	amod
18	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 rang	punct
20	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	21 bells	nmod:poss
21	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 rang	nsubj
22	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 church	parataxis
23	out	out	ADP	_	22 rang	compound:prt
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 summon	punct
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 summon	mark
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 summon	mark
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 summon	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 summon	aux
29	summon	summon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 rang	conj
30	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 summon	obj
31	from	from	ADP	_	33 corners	case
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 corners	det
33	corners	corner	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 summon	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 earth	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 earth	det
36	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 corners	nmod
37	to	to	PART	_	38 come	mark
38	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 summon	advcl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 behold	cc
40	behold	behold	INTJ	_	38 come	discourse
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 wonder	det
42	wonder	wonder	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 come	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 church	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	gleam	gerund	the right not said here			the sun		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sun=Location
2	is	past	the five golden cupolas			the right	of a splendid church	tree rules
3	ring out	past	bells					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	summon a condition, not said to happen	would	bells = bell		people	all corners of the earth		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Recipient
5	come	to-infinitive	bells = bell not said here	the wonder				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wonder=Theme

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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