Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 58

I would fain fly away now; but if you weep for me as you are weeping now, you may never see me again.

Who acts: I, you · What happens: fain, fly away, weep, not see · To what, where: me

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Child in the Grave. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 fain	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fain	aux
3	fain	fain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fain	xcomp
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 fly	advmod
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 fly	advmod
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 see	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 see	cc
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 weep	mark
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 weep	nsubj
11	weep	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 see	advcl
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 me	case
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 weep	obl
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 weeping	mark
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 weeping	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 weeping	aux
17	weeping	weep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 weep	advcl
18	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 weeping	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 weep	punct
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 see	nsubj
21	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 see	aux
22	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	23 see	advmod
23	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fain	conj
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 see	obj
25	again	again	ADV	_	23 see	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	fain	would	I				tree rules
2	fly away	infinitive	I not said here		now	away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	weep a condition, not said to happen	present	you			for me	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	weep	present · progressive	you		now		vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not see	may	you	me	again		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus

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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