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title: When they came in again they were so shamefaced that they hardly dar… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 103

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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.

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

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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.

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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:pg540:6:103
# text = 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.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
4	in	in	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	shamefaced	shamefac	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	dared	dare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Halvor	Halvor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	obl	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
23	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	26	advmod	_	_
24	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	cop	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	parataxis	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	haughty	haughty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	_
29	before	before	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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:** «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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