Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pea Blossom, sentence 16
"Now I am flying out into the wide world," said he; "catch me if you can;" and he was gone in a moment.
Who acts: boy · What happens: fly out, say, catch, be · To what, where: wide world, boy · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pea Blossom. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 flying | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 flying | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 flying | nsubj |
| 4 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 flying | aux |
| 5 | flying | fly | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 said | ccomp |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 flying | compound:prt |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 world | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 world | det |
| 9 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 world | amod |
| 10 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flying | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 flying | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 flying | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 catch | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 catch | punct |
| 17 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 catch | obj |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 can | mark |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 can | nsubj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 catch | advcl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 catch | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 catch | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 gone | cc |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 gone | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 gone | cop |
| 27 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 said | conj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 moment | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 moment | det |
| 30 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 gone | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly out in a quote | present · progressive | boy | now | into the wide world result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into world=Result | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | boy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | catch in a quote | infinitive | boy | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | past | boy | moment | gone property | tree rules |
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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