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title: No, indeed; the most singular flowers and plants grow there; the lea… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: No, indeed; the most singular flowers and plants grow there; the leaves and stems of which are so pliant, that the slightest agitation of the water causes them to stir as if they had life. Who acts: singular flowers, leaves, slightest agitation, flowers. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 4

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No, indeed; the most singular flowers and plants grow there; the leaves and stems of which are so pliant, that the slightest agitation of the water causes them to stir as if they had life.

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**Who acts:** singular flowers, leaves, slightest agitation, flowers · **What happens:** grow, be, cause, stir, have · **To what, where:** leaves, life

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (singular flowers, leaves, slightest agitation, flowers), 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:pg27200:75:4
# text = No, indeed; the most singular flowers and plants grow there; the leaves and stems of which are so pliant, that the slightest agitation of the water causes them to stir as if they had life.
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	11	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	7	advmod	_	_
7	singular	singular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
12	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	stems	stem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nmod	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	pliant	pliant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	slightest	slight	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	27	amod	_	_
27	agitation	agitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	causes	cause	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	stir	stir	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	advcl	_	_
35	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
36	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
37	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	ccomp	_	_
39	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present | the singular flowers and plants |  |  | there |  | indeed *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | the leaves and stems |  |  |  |  | pliant *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **cause** | present | the slightest agitation of the water | leaves *= leaf* |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition they=Patient |
| 4 | **stir** | to-infinitive | the slightest agitation of the water *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | flowers *= flower* | life |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient |

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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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