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title: The astonishment of the giant at the sudden disappearance of the Pri… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The astonishment of the giant at the sudden disappearance of the Prince may well be imagined. Who acts: Prince. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 33

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The astonishment of the giant at the sudden disappearance of the Prince may well be imagined.

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**Who acts:** Prince · **What happens:** imagine, disappear · **To what, where:** astonishment

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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:pg640:17:33
# text = The astonishment of the giant at the sudden disappearance of the Prince may well be imagined.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	acl	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	disappearance	disappearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
14	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	imagined	imagine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **imagine** | may · passive |  | the astonishment |  |  |  | well *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **disappear** |  | the Prince |  |  |  |  |  | nom disappearance «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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