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title: A horrid embarrassment came into the great hall, and as the High Kin… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XII, with
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XII, sentence 15

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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.

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

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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.

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**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:pg2892:25:15
# text = 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.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	horrid	horrid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	embarrassment	embarrassment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	High	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
18	palpitating	palpitate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	amod	_	_
19	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
23	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	23	obl	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	grave	grave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	obl	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	sternness	sternness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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.

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**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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