--- title: She stood still to admire it, when, to her great surprise, she heard… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: She stood still to admire it, when, to her great surprise, she heard a voice addressing her which seemed to come from the centre of its rays. Who acts: Princess, voice, rainbow. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, voice, rainbow), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg640:23:59 # text = She stood still to admire it, when, to her great surprise, she heard a voice addressing her which seemed to come from the centre of its rays. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 still still ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 admire admire VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 12 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 surprise surprise NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 addressing address VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 acl _ _ 20 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 22 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 ccomp _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 25 from from ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 centre centre NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 rays ray NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | past | Princess | | | | still | to Princess's great surprise | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **admire** | to-infinitive | Princess *not said here* | rainbow | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 3 | **hear** | past | Princess | a voice | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | | 4 | **address** | gerund | a voice *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **seem** | past | | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 6 | **come** | to-infinitive | | | | the centre of rainbow's rays | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from centre=Initial\_Location | | 7 | **surprise** | | Princess | | | | | | nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | | 8 | **ray** | | rainbow | | | | | | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/23/58/) - next →: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/23/60/) - ↑ back to [The Glass Mountain(16), part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/23/)