--- title: Why the one who flew out into the wide world, and said, "Catch me if… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: 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. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pea Blossom, with its dependency tree --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/141/48/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Pea Blossom](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/141/) / 48 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:141:48 # text = 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. 1 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 4 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 5 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 6 out out ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 into into ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 Catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 ccomp _ _ 17 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 if if SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 23 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 24 into into ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 gutter gutter NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 on on ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 roof roof NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 ended end VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 36 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 travels travel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 ccomp _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 crop crop NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 pigeon pigeon NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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. - ← previous: [sentence 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/141/47/) - next →: [sentence 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/141/49/) - ↑ back to [The Pea Blossom](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/141/)