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title: The General gave a very respectful invitation "that they might make… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The General gave a very respectful invitation "that they might make each other's acquaintance," and he smiled in his certainty concerning the person he was inviting. Who acts: General, respectful invitation. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 100

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The General gave a very respectful invitation "that they might make each other's acquaintance," and he smiled in his certainty concerning the person he was inviting.

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**Who acts:** General, respectful invitation · **What happens:** give, make, smile, concern, invite · **To what, where:** respectful invitation, acquaintance, person

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (General, respectful invitation), 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:pg27200:148:100
# text = The General gave a very respectful invitation "that they might make each other's acquaintance," and he smiled in his certainty concerning the person he was inviting.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	General	General	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	respectful	respectful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	invitation	invitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl:relcl	_	_
13	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	acquaintance	acquaintance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	smiled	smile	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	certainty	certainty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	concerning	concern	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	inviting	invite	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | the General | a respectful invitation |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent invitation=Theme |
| 2 | **make** *in a quote* | might | a respectful invitation | each other's acquaintance |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset acquaintance=Product |
| 3 | **smile** | past | General |  |  |  |  | in General's certainty | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in certainty=Theme |
| 4 | **concern** | gerund | General *not said here* | the person |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus person=Experiencer |
| 5 | **invite** | past · progressive | General | the person *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Recipient |

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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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