Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last, sentence 59

The grandmother sat in God's bright sunshine, and she read aloud from the Bible, "Except ye become as little children, ye shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of God."

Who acts: grandmother, Except · What happens: sit, read, become · To what, where: bright sunshine, Bible

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grandmother, Except), 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	_	8 sunshine	case
5	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 sunshine	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 God	case
7	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sunshine	amod
8	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 read	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 read	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 read	nsubj
12	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
13	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	12 read	advmod
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 Bible	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Bible	det
16	Bible	Bible	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 read	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 become	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 become	punct
19	Except	except	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 become	nsubj
20	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	21 become	nsubj
21	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 read	conj
22	as	as	ADP	_	24 children	case
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 children	amod
24	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 become	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 shall	punct
26	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	27 shall	nsubj
27	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	advcl
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 enter	case
29	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	31 enter	det
30	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 enter	amod
31	enter	enter	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 shall	obl
32	into	into	ADP	_	34 kingdom	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 kingdom	det
34	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 God	case
36	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 kingdom	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	the grandmother	God's bright sunshine	into the kingdom of God	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sunshine=Location
2	read	past	grandmother	the Bible	aloud property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from bible=Source
3	become in a quote	present	Except		as little children	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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