--- title: Their amazement knew no bounds when they saw a beautiful youth stand… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Their amazement knew no bounds when they saw a beautiful youth standing before their daughter with the snake’s skin lying on the floor beside him. Who acts: amazement, eyes, beautiful youth. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Snake, with its dependency tree and the pr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/25/39/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Green Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/) / [The Enchanted Snake](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/25/) / 39 # The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 39 Their amazement knew no bounds when they saw a beautiful youth standing before their daughter with the snake’s skin lying on the floor beside him. **Who acts:** amazement, eyes, beautiful youth · **What happens:** know, see, stand, lie, amaze · **To what, where:** bounds, beautiful youth, floor This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (amazement, eyes, beautiful youth), 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:pg7277:25:39 # text = Their amazement knew no bounds when they saw a beautiful youth standing before their daughter with the snake’s skin lying on the floor beside him. 1 Their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 amazement amazement NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 5 det _ _ 5 bounds bound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 7 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 12 standing stand VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 acl _ _ 13 before before ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ’s 's PART POS _ 18 case _ _ 20 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 21 lying lie VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ _ 22 on on ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 beside beside ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** | past | eyes's amazement | no bounds | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer bound=Stimulus | | 2 | **see** | past | eyes *= eye* | a beautiful youth | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer youth=Stimulus | | 3 | **stand** | gerund | a beautiful youth *not said here* | | | | before eyes's daughter | with the snake's skin | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before daughter=Location | | 4 | **lie** | gerund | a beautiful youth *not said here* | | | the floor | | beside amazement | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=Location | | 5 | **amaze** | | eyes *= eye* | | | | | | nom amazement «feeling 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/25/38/) - next →: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/25/40/) - ↑ back to [The Enchanted Snake](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/25/)