Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 4

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 · What happens: grow, be, cause, stir, have · To what, where: leaves, life

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.

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	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	11 grow	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	11 grow	advmod
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 indeed	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 flowers	det
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 singular	advmod
7	singular	singular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 flowers	amod
8	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 grow	nsubj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 plants	cc
10	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 flowers	conj
11	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 pliant	advcl
12	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 grow	advmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 leaves	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 leaves	det
15	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 pliant	nsubj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 stems	cc
17	stems	stem	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 leaves	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 which	case
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 leaves	nmod
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 pliant	cop
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 pliant	advmod
22	pliant	pliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 causes	punct
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 causes	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 agitation	det
26	slightest	slight	ADJ	Degree=Sup	27 agitation	amod
27	agitation	agitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 causes	nsubj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 water	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 water	det
30	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 agitation	nmod
31	causes	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 pliant	conj
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 causes	obj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 stir	mark
34	stir	stir	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 causes	advcl
35	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 had	mark
36	if	if	SCONJ	_	38 had	mark
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 had	nsubj
38	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 stir	ccomp
39	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 had	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 pliant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	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

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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