--- title: Surprise kept them silent while for one delicious moment they gazed… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Surprise kept them silent while for one delicious moment they gazed into each other’s eyes, and just then who should come up but King Gridelin, for it was into his kingdom they had accidentally strayed. Who acts: Surprise, miracles. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/39/19/) [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/) / [Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/39/) / 19 # The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 4, sentence 19 Surprise kept them silent while for one delicious moment they gazed into each other’s eyes, and just then who should come up but King Gridelin, for it was into his kingdom they had accidentally strayed. **Who acts:** Surprise, miracles · **What happens:** keep, gaze, come up, be, stray · **To what, where:** miracles, eyes, kingdom This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, 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 (Surprise, miracles), 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:pg7277:39:19 # text = Surprise kept them silent while for one delicious moment they gazed into each other’s eyes, and just then who should come up but King Gridelin, for it was into his kingdom they had accidentally strayed. 1 Surprise surprise NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 silent silent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ _ 5 while while SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 8 delicious delicious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 gazed gaze VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 12 into into ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 16 nmod:poss _ _ 14 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 fixed _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ’s 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 16 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 19 just just ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 23 advmod _ _ 21 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 22 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 24 up up ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 25 but but CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 Gridelin Gridelin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 29 for for ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 31 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 32 into into ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 kingdom kingdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 parataxis _ _ 35 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 36 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 37 accidentally accidentally ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 strayed stray VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 34 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | past | Surprise | miracles *= miracle* | | | | silent *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 2 | **gaze** | past | miracles *= miracle* | each's eyes | | | moment | | tree rules | | 3 | **come up** | should | | | | | then | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** | past | Surprise | | | | | for Gridelin's kingdom | tree rules | | 5 | **stray** | past · perfect | miracles *= miracle* | Gridelin's kingdom *not said here* | | | | accidentally *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location kingdom=Theme | 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 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/39/18/) - next →: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/39/20/) - ↑ back to [Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/39/)