Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 81
But lo! on coming in sight of the tower, a new wonder met their eyes.
Who acts: new wonder · What happens: come, meet, sight · To what, where: sight, eyes, tower
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (new wonder), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 coming | cc |
| 2 | lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 5 coming | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 lo | punct |
| 4 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 5 coming | mark |
| 5 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 met | advcl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 sight | case |
| 7 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 coming | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 tower | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tower | det |
| 10 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sight | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 coming | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 wonder | det |
| 13 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 wonder | amod |
| 14 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 met | nsubj |
| 15 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 17 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 met | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | gerund | a new wonder not said here | sight of the tower | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sight=Location | ||||
| 2 | meet | past | a new wonder | towers's eyes | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | sight | the tower | nom sight «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: «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Project Gutenberg book 77685 (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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