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title: Perhaps your dream may come true; still I will say farewell, for if… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 10

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

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**Who acts:** dream, I, your · **What happens:** come, say, guess, not see, dream · **To what, where:** you · **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 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.

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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:pg27200:198:10
# text = Perhaps your dream may come true; still I will say farewell, for if I guess wrong I shall never see you again."
1	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	still	still	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
12	farewell	farewell	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
14	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
15	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	guess	guess	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
18	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	again	again	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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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