Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 10

Perhaps your dream may come true; still I will say farewell, for if I guess wrong I shall never see you again."

Who acts: dream, I, your · What happens: come, say, guess, not see, dream · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dream, I, your), 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	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 dream	nmod:poss
3	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	nsubj
4	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 come	xcomp
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 say	punct
8	still	still	ADV	_	11 say	advmod
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 say	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 say	aux
11	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 come	parataxis
12	farewell	farewell	INTJ	_	11 say	discourse
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 see	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	22 see	mark
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 guess	mark
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 guess	nsubj
17	guess	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 see	advcl
18	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 guess	xcomp
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 see	nsubj
20	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 see	aux
21	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	22 see	advmod
22	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 say	conj
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 see	obj
24	again	again	ADV	_	22 see	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	may	your dream			perhaps, true property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	future	I		still		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	guess a condition, not said to happen	present	I			wrong property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	not see	shall	I	you	again		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
5	dream		your				nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=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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