Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 109

Believe me, the time will come when you will be old, and your sinews will shrink, and then, on some fine sunshiny day, when everything is laughing and rejoicing, you will lie there a faded plant, that will grow no more.

Who acts: you, time, sinews, everything, faded plant · What happens: believe, come, be, shrink, laugh, rejoice · To what, where: me, faded plant, more

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, time, sinews, everything), 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	Believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Believe	iobj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 come	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 time	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 come	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 come	aux
7	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Believe	parataxis
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 old	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 old	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 old	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 old	cop
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 come	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 shrink	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 shrink	cc
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 sinews	nmod:poss
16	sinews	sinew	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 shrink	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 shrink	aux
18	shrink	shrink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Believe	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 lie	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 lie	cc
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 lie	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 then	punct
23	on	on	ADP	_	27 day	case
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	27 day	det
25	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 day	amod
26	sunshiny	sunshiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 day	amod
27	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 lie	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 laughing	punct
29	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	32 laughing	advmod
30	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	32 laughing	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 laughing	aux
32	laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 day	conj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 rejoicing	cc
34	rejoicing	rejoice	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 laughing	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 day	punct
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 lie	nsubj
37	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 lie	aux
38	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Believe	parataxis
39	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 lie	advmod
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 plant	det
41	faded	fade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 plant	amod
42	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 lie	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 grow	punct
44	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 grow	nsubj
45	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 grow	aux
46	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 plant	acl:relcl
47	no	no	ADV	_	48 more	advmod
48	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	46 grow	obj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Believe	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	believe	imperative	you not said here		me				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
2	come	future	the time						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	future	you					old property	tree rules
4	shrink	future	your sinews						vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	laugh	present · progressive	everything						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	rejoice	gerund	everything not said here						vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	lie	future	you	a faded plant		there	then; day		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	fade	participle							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
9	grow	future	a faded plant	more					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location more=Theme

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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