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title: "He whom the King invites can be invited by the General also," said… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "He whom the King invites can be invited by the General also," said the General, and drew himself up till he stood quite an inch higher than before. Who acts: General, George. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, with its dependency tree
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 117

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"He whom the King invites can be invited by the General also," said the General, and drew himself up till he stood quite an inch higher than before.

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**Who acts:** General, George · **What happens:** invite, say, draw up, stand · **To what, where:** George, inch · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (General, George), 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:pg27200:147:117
# text = "He whom the King invites can be invited by the General also," said the General, and drew himself up till he stood quite an inch higher than before.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	invites	invite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	invited	invite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	ccomp	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	General	General	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	also	also	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	General	General	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
22	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	21	obj	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
24	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
27	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
28	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	inch	inch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	xcomp	_	_
31	than	than	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	before	before	ADV	RB	_	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **invite** *in a quote* | can · passive | the General | George |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the General |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **draw up** | past | the General *not said here* | George |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme |
| 4 | **stand** | past | George | a inch |  |  |  | high *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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