Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 179

They were gray, gloomy days, and in the house whose windows were not glass, twilight and dark nights reigned in turns.

Who acts: merchants, windows, dark nights · What happens: be, not be, reign · To what, where: glass, house, turns

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchants, windows, dark nights), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gray	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gray	cop
3	gray	gray	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 days	punct
5	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 days	amod
6	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gray	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 glass	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 glass	cc
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 house	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 house	det
11	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 glass	obl
12	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	13 windows	nmod:poss
13	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 glass	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 glass	cop
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 glass	advmod
16	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gray	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 twilight	punct
18	twilight	twilight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 glass	amod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 reigned	cc
20	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 nights	amod
21	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 reigned	nsubj
22	reigned	reign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 twilight	conj
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 turns	case
24	turns	turn	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 reigned	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gray	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	merchants = merchant			day	gray property	tree rules
2	not is a	past	glass's windows	glass	the house			tree rules
3	reign	past	dark nights		turns			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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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