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

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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!

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

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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.

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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:pg27200:197:78
# text = 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!
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	wish	wish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
8	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux	_	_
18	continued	continue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	parataxis	_	_
19	together	together	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	much	much	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
32	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
33	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	35	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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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