Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pea Blossom, sentence 48
Why the one who flew out into the wide world, and said, "Catch me if you can," fell into a gutter on the roof of a house, and ended his travels in the crop of a pigeon.
Who acts: one · What happens: fly out, say, catch, fall, end, travel · To what, where: wide world, me, gutter, crop · 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 (one), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 one | det |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Why | appos |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 flew | nsubj |
| 5 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 one | acl:relcl |
| 6 | out | out | ADV | _ | 5 flew | advmod |
| 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 flew | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 flew | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Catch | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Catch | punct |
| 16 | Catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 Catch | obj |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 can | mark |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 can | nsubj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 Catch | advcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fell | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 fell | punct |
| 23 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | conj |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 gutter | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 gutter | det |
| 26 | gutter | gutter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fell | obl |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 roof | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 roof | det |
| 29 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fell | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 house | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 house | det |
| 32 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 roof | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 ended | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 ended | cc |
| 35 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 fell | conj |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 travels | nmod:poss |
| 37 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 ended | ccomp |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 crop | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 crop | det |
| 40 | crop | crop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 travels | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 pigeon | case |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 pigeon | det |
| 43 | pigeon | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 crop | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly out | past | the one | into the wide world result; out property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into world=Result | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the one not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | catch in a quote | infinitive | me | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||||
| 4 | fall | past | the one not said here | a gutter | on the roof of a house | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on roof=Location | |||
| 5 | end | past | the one not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | travel | present | the one not said here | the crop of a pigeon | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in crop=Trajectory |
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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