Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 68

But I felt a kind of longing to see you once more before you die, and I wanted to see this place again, for there is always a clinging to the land of one's birth.

Who acts: I, kind, you · What happens: feel, long, see, die, want, cling · To what, where: kind, you, place

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, kind, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 felt	cc
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 felt	nsubj
3	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 kind	det
5	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 felt	obj
6	of	of	SCONJ	_	7 longing	mark
7	longing	long	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 kind	acl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 see	mark
9	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 longing	xcomp
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 see	obj
11	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 more	advmod
12	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 see	advmod
13	before	before	SCONJ	_	15 die	mark
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 die	nsubj
15	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 see	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 wanted	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 wanted	cc
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 wanted	nsubj
19	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 clinging	advcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 see	mark
21	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 wanted	xcomp
22	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 place	det
23	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 see	obj
24	again	again	ADV	_	21 see	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 is	punct
26	for	for	ADP	_	28 is	case
27	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	28 is	expl
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 clinging	aux
29	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	31 clinging	advmod
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 clinging	det
31	clinging	cling	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 felt	advcl
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 land	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 land	det
34	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 clinging	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	38 birth	case
36	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 birth	nmod:poss
37	's	's	PART	_	36 one	case
38	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 land	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	I	a kind			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Theme
2	long	gerund	a kind not said here				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	a kind not said here	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
4	die	present	you				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	want	past	I				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	this place	again		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer place=Stimulus
7	cling	present · progressive	I not said here			to the land of one's birth; always property	vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to land=Co-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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