Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XII, sentence 15

A horrid embarrassment came into the great hall, and as the High King stood in that palpitating silence his noble face changed from kindly to grave and from that to a terrible sternness.

Who acts: horrid embarrassment, High King · What happens: come, stand, palpitate, change, grave · To what, where: great hall, noble face, palpitating silence, that

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horrid embarrassment, High King), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 embarrassment	det
2	horrid	horrid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 embarrassment	amod
3	embarrassment	embarrassment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	8 hall	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hall	det
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hall	amod
8	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 stood	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 stood	cc
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 stood	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 King	det
13	High	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 King	amod
14	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 stood	nsubj
15	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 silence	case
17	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 silence	det
18	palpitating	palpitate	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 silence	amod
19	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stood	obl
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 face	nmod:poss
21	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 face	amod
22	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stood	obl
23	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 face	acl
24	from	from	ADP	_	25 kindly	case
25	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	23 changed	obl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 grave	mark
27	grave	grave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 changed	advcl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 that	cc
29	from	from	ADP	_	30 that	case
30	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 grave	obl
31	to	to	ADP	_	34 sternness	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 sternness	det
33	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 sternness	amod
34	sternness	sternness	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 grave	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	a horrid embarrassment		the great hall		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into hall=Initial_Location
2	stand	past	the High King	King's noble face	that palpitating silence		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in silence=Location
3	palpitate	gerund					vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	change	participle		King's noble face not said here			vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.material PP.result»: agent=Agent from kindly=Initial_State
5	grave	to-infinitive			that	to a terrible sternness	tree rules

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: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (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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