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title: In a moment he seized the egg and flung it at the bird with all his… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In a moment he seized the egg and flung it at the bird with all his might, and lo and behold! instead of the ugly monster the most beautiful girl he had ever seen stood before the astonished eyes of the Prince. Who acts: hare, beautiful girl. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5, sentence 30

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In a moment he seized the egg and flung it at the bird with all his might, and lo and behold! instead of the ugly monster the most beautiful girl he had ever seen stood before the astonished eyes of the Prince.

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**Who acts:** hare, beautiful girl · **What happens:** seize, fling, see, stand · **To what, where:** egg, beautiful girl, astonished eyes

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hare, beautiful girl), 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:pg640:26:30
# text = In a moment he seized the egg and flung it at the bird with all his might, and lo and behold! instead of the ugly monster the most beautiful girl he had ever seen stood before the astonished eyes of the Prince.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	flung	fling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	17	det:predet	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
24	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	28	case	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	fixed	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	31	advmod	_	_
31	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
34	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	36	advmod	_	_
36	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	32	acl:relcl	_	_
37	stood	stand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	xcomp	_	_
38	before	before	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	astonished	astonished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seize** | past | hare | the egg |  |  | moment |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme |
| 2 | **fling** | past | hare *not said here* | egg |  |  |  | at the bird | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme at bird=Destination |
| 3 | **see** | past · perfect | hare | the beautiful girl *not said here* |  |  | ever |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **stand** | participle | the beautiful girl *not said here* |  |  | the astonished eyes of the Prince |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before eye=Location |

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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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