Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 78

I do so wish you to do well," said he; "we might have continued together much longer, and now I am likely to lose you; you poor dear John!

Who acts: I, John · What happens: wish, do, say, continue, be, lose · To what, where: you, we · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, John), 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	4 wish	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wish	aux
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 wish	advmod
4	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 wish	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wish	xcomp
8	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 do	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wish	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 wish	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 continued	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 continued	punct
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 continued	nsubj:pass
16	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 continued	aux
17	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 continued	aux
18	continued	continue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 said	parataxis
19	together	together	ADV	_	18 continued	advmod
20	much	much	ADV	_	21 longer	advmod
21	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 continued	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 likely	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 likely	cc
24	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 likely	advmod
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 likely	nsubj
26	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 likely	cop
27	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 continued	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 lose	mark
29	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 likely	xcomp
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 lose	obj
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 John	punct
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 John	nsubj
33	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 John	amod
34	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 John	amod
35	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	parataxis
36	!	!	PUNCT	_	35 John	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	wish	present · do-support	I		you			tree rules
2	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here				well property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past	John					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	continue	might · perfect · passive		we			long, together property	vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Theme
5	is	present	I			now	likely property	tree rules
6	lose	to-infinitive	I not said here	you				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality

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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