Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 5, sentence 75

The grandmother sat in the bright sunshine, and read aloud from the Bible: “Unless ye become as little children, ye cannot enter the kingdom of heaven.”

Who acts: grandmother, Unless, ye · What happens: sit, read, become, not enter · To what, where: bright sunshine, Bible, kingdom

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grandmother, Unless, ye), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 grandmother	det
2	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 sunshine	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sunshine	det
6	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sunshine	amod
7	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 read	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 read	cc
10	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sat	advcl
11	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	10 read	advmod
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 Bible	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Bible	det
14	Bible	Bible	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 read	obl
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 become	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 become	punct
17	Unless	unless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 become	nsubj
18	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	19 become	nsubj
19	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
20	as	as	ADP	_	22 children	case
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 children	amod
22	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 become	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 enter	punct
24	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	27 enter	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 enter	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 enter	advmod
27	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 become	parataxis
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 kingdom	det
29	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 enter	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 heaven	case
31	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 kingdom	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	the grandmother		the bright sunshine		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sunshine=Location
2	read	infinitive	the grandmother not said here		the Bible	aloud property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from bible=Source
3	become in a quote	present	Unless			as little children	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	not enter in a quote	can	ye	the kingdom of heaven			vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme kingdom=Destination

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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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