Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 76

It was on a winter day, one of those days in which one has a couple of hours of daylight, with a gray sky.

Who acts: whole, one · What happens: be, have · To what, where: couple

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Our Aunt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whole, one), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 day	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 day	cop
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 day	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 day	det
5	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 day	compound
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 one	punct
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 day	appos
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 days	case
10	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	11 days	det
11	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 one	nmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 which	case
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 has	obl
14	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 has	nsubj
15	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 days	acl:relcl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 couple	det
17	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 has	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 hours	case
19	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 couple	nmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 daylight	case
21	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hours	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sky	punct
23	with	with	ADP	_	26 sky	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 sky	det
25	gray	gray	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 sky	amod
26	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 couple	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 day	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	whole				on a winter day		tree rules
2	have	present	one	a couple of hours of daylight and a gray sky			in that days		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent couple=Patient

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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