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title: But lo! on coming in sight of the tower, a new wonder met their eyes. — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: But lo! on coming in sight of the tower, a new wonder met their eyes. Who acts: new wonder. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 81

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But lo! on coming in sight of the tower, a new wonder met their eyes.

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**Who acts:** new wonder · **What happens:** come, meet, sight · **To what, where:** sight, eyes, tower

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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.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg77685:8:81
# text = But lo! on coming in sight of the tower, a new wonder met their eyes.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	wonder	wonder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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:** «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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