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title: I would fain fly away now; but if you weep for me as you are weeping… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Child in the Grave, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 58

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

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

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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.

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**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:pg27200:17:58
# text = I would fain fly away now; but if you weep for me as you are weeping now, you may never see me again.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	fain	fain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	weep	weep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	weeping	weep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
18	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	again	again	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | 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 |

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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.

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**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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