Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 20
Don't you become a drunkard, but I expect you will though.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: not do, become, expect · To what, where: drunkard
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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 | Do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 become | advcl |
| 2 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 1 Do | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 become | nsubj |
| 4 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 drunkard | det |
| 6 | drunkard | drunkard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 become | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 expect | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 expect | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 expect | nsubj |
| 10 | expect | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 become | advcl |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 will | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 expect | ccomp |
| 13 | though | though | ADV | _ | 12 will | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 become | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | infinitive | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | become | present | you | a drunkard | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | expect | present | I | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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