Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snail and the Rose-tree, sentence 19

You will now soon be nothing but a stick.

Who acts: You · What happens: be · To what, where: nothing

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snail and the Rose-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 nothing	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 nothing	aux
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 nothing	advmod
4	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 nothing	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 nothing	cop
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 stick	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 stick	det
9	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nothing	conj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 nothing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	future	You	nothing			now	soon property	tree rules

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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