Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 1

One day, when it was very gloomy, gray, wet weather, the brightest of days dawned for George; for the Professor at the Academy called him into his room.

Who acts: it, Professor · What happens: be, dawn, call · To what, where: days, George, room · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, Professor), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gloomy	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 gloomy	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gloomy	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 gloomy	cop
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 gloomy	advmod
8	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 gray	punct
10	gray	gray	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 gloomy	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 weather	punct
12	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 weather	amod
13	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gloomy	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 brightest	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 brightest	det
16	brightest	bright	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 weather	acl:relcl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 days	case
18	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 brightest	obl
19	dawned	dawn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 days	acl
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 George	case
21	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 dawned	obl:agent
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 called	punct
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 Professor	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Professor	det
25	Professor	Professor	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 called	nsubj
26	at	at	ADP	_	28 Academy	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Academy	det
28	Academy	Academy	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Professor	nmod
29	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 gloomy	conj
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 called	obj
31	into	into	ADP	_	33 room	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 room	nmod:poss
33	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 called	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 gloomy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it			day	gloomy property	tree rules
2	be							tree rules
3	dawn	participle		days not said here				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	call	past	the Professor at the Academy	George	Professor's room			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Topic into room=Recipient

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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