--- title: The grandmother sat in God's bright sunshine, and she read aloud fro… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: 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. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:176:59 # text = 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." 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 grandmother grandmother NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 sunshine sunshine NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 read read VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 13 aloud aloud ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 from from ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 Bible Bible PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 Except except ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 nsubj _ _ 20 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 21 nsubj _ _ 21 become become VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 22 as as ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 27 nsubj _ _ 27 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 31 det _ _ 30 wise wise ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 enter enter NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 32 into into ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 kingdom kingdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/176/58/) - next →: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/176/60/) - ↑ back to [Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/176/)