--- title: Believe me, the time will come when you will be old, and your sinews… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: 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. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Chri --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/151/109/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Psyche](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/151/) / 109 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:151:109 # text = 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. 1 Believe believe VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 1 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 parataxis _ _ 8 when when SCONJ WRB _ 12 mark _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 10 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 12 cop _ _ 12 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 15 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 sinews sinew NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 17 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 shrink shrink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 21 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 38 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 24 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 27 det _ _ 25 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 26 sunshiny sunshiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 32 advmod _ _ 30 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 32 nsubj _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 laughing laugh VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 conj _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 rejoicing rejoice VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 32 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 36 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 37 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 lie lie VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 parataxis _ _ 39 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 38 advmod _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 faded fade VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 42 amod _ _ 42 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 44 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 46 nsubj _ _ 45 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ _ 46 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 42 acl:relcl _ _ 47 no no ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 48 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 46 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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. - ← previous: [sentence 108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/151/108/) - next →: [sentence 110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/151/110/) - ↑ back to [The Psyche](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/151/)