The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 103

When they came in again they were so shamefaced that they hardly dared to look at Halvor, towards whom they had always been so proud and haughty before.

Who acts: girls · What happens: come in, shamefac, dare, look, be · To what, where: girls

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girls), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 shamefaced	advcl
4	in	in	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	again	again	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 shamefaced	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 shamefaced	aux:pass
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 shamefaced	advmod
9	shamefaced	shamefac	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 dared	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 dared	nsubj
12	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	13 dared	advmod
13	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 shamefaced	advcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 look	mark
15	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 dared	xcomp
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 Halvor	case
17	Halvor	Halvor	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 look	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 whom	punct
19	towards	towards	ADP	_	20 whom	case
20	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 dared	obl
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 proud	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 proud	aux
23	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	26 proud	advmod
24	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 proud	cop
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 proud	advmod
26	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 whom	parataxis
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 haughty	cc
28	haughty	haughty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 proud	conj
29	before	before	ADV	_	28 haughty	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 shamefaced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come in	past	girls = girl		again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	shamefac	past · passive		girls = girl			tree rules
3	dare	past	girls = girl			hardly property	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	look	to-infinitive	girls = girl not said here			at Halvor	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at halvor=Theme
5	is	past · perfect	girls = girl			always, proud property	tree rules
6	be		girls = girl not said here			before property	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: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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