In [this part](https://www.wasabi-jpn.com/japanese-lessons/2-3-jack-and-the-
beanstalk/) of the Jack and the Beanstalk story, there's this one sentence:

> 庭{にわ}にとても大{おお}きな豆{まめ}の木{き}があったのです。

translated as

> There was a very big beanstalk in the yard.

My understanding of a の without any following noun is that either it's a
normalizer (as in [this
answer](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/1395/what-is-the-
difference-between-the-nominalizers-%E3%81%93%E3%81%A8-and-%E3%81%AE)) or that
there's some sort of implied noun. In this example though, I don't believe
it's the first case since they didn't need to normalize it since there's no
succeeding clause, and could have had something like this

> 庭{にわ}にとても大{おお}きな豆{まめ}の木{き}がありました。

If it is the second case though, the provided translation doesn't give many
clues, and I can only think of the generic もの in that context, and looking at
the first point in [another
answer](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/43083/the-meanings-
of-%E3%82%82%E3%81%AE%E3%81%A0) about もの, would it be correct to say that by
using の, the narrator is expressing some sort of surprise?
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particle-の
Implied noun from の