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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kept	obj
4	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 kept	xcomp
5	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 gazed	mark
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 moment	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 moment	nummod
8	delicious	delicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 moment	amod
9	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gazed	obl
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 gazed	nsubj
11	gazed	gaze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 kept	advcl
12	into	into	ADP	_	13 each	case
13	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	16 eyes	nmod:poss
14	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 each	fixed
15	’s	's	PART	_	13 each	case
16	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 gazed	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 come	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 come	cc
19	just	just	ADV	_	20 then	advmod
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 come	advmod
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 come	nsubj
22	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 come	aux
23	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 kept	parataxis
24	up	up	ADV	_	23 come	advmod
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 Gridelin	cc
26	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Gridelin	compound
27	Gridelin	Gridelin	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 come	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 kingdom	punct
29	for	for	ADP	_	34 kingdom	case
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 kingdom	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 kingdom	cop
32	into	into	ADP	_	34 kingdom	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 kingdom	nmod:poss
34	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 come	parataxis
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 strayed	nsubj
36	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 strayed	aux
37	accidentally	accidentally	ADV	_	38 strayed	advmod
38	strayed	stray	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 kingdom	acl:relcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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.

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