Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 27

The old steward of the castle, who has to watch there at night, sometimes comes in; but he carries a great bunch of keys, and as soon as the flowers hear the keys rattle, they run and hide themselves behind the long curtains, and stand quite still, just peeping their heads out.

Who acts: old steward, steward, flowers, keys · What happens: have, watch, come in, carry, hear, rattle · To what, where: great bunch, flowers, long curtains, heads

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old steward, steward, flowers, keys), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 steward	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 steward	amod
3	steward	steward	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 has	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 castle	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 castle	det
6	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 steward	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 has	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 has	nsubj
9	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 watch	mark
11	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 has	xcomp
12	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 watch	advmod
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 night	case
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 watch	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 comes	punct
16	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	17 comes	advmod
17	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 has	conj
18	in	in	ADV	_	17 comes	advmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 carries	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 carries	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 carries	nsubj
22	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 has	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 bunch	det
24	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 bunch	amod
25	bunch	bunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 carries	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 keys	case
27	keys	key	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 bunch	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 hear	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 hear	cc
30	as	as	ADV	_	31 soon	advmod
31	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	35 hear	advmod
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 hear	mark
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 flowers	det
34	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 hear	nsubj
35	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 carries	advcl
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 keys	det
37	keys	key	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 rattle	nsubj
38	rattle	rattle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 hear	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 run	punct
40	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 run	nsubj
41	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 carries	conj
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 hide	cc
43	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 run	conj
44	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	43 hide	obj
45	behind	behind	ADP	_	48 curtains	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 curtains	det
47	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 curtains	amod
48	curtains	curtain	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 hide	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 stand	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 stand	cc
51	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 run	conj
52	quite	quite	ADV	_	53 still	advmod
53	still	still	ADV	_	51 stand	advmod
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 peeping	punct
55	just	just	ADV	_	56 peeping	advmod
56	peeping	peep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	51 stand	advcl
57	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 heads	nmod:poss
58	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 peeping	obj
59	out	out	ADV	_	56 peeping	advmod
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the old steward of the castle					tree rules
2	watch	to-infinitive	the old steward of the castle not said here		there	night		vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
3	come in	present	the old steward of the castle not said here				sometimes property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	carry	present	steward	a great bunch of keys				vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bunch=Theme
5	hear	present	the flowers				soon property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
6	rattle	present	the keys					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	run	present	flowers = flower					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	hide	present	flowers = flower not said here	flowers = flower	the long curtains			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient behind curtain=Location
9	stand	present	flowers = flower not said here			still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	peep out	gerund	flowers = flower not said here	flowers's heads			out property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme

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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