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title: At the right, gleaming in the sun, were the five golden cupolas of a… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, T
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 129

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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.

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

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg640:33:129
# text = 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.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	gleaming	gleam	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	cupolas	cupola	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	bells	bell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	rang	ring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	summon	summon	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
30	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	33	det	_	_
33	corners	corner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	38	discourse	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	wonder	wonder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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.

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**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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