Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 117

"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 · What happens: invite, say, draw up, stand · To what, where: George, inch · Speech: someone speaks here

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.

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	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 invited	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 invited	nsubj:pass
3	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 invited	nsubj:pass
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 invites	det
5	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 invites	compound
6	invites	invite	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 invited	nsubj:pass
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 invited	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 invited	aux:pass
9	invited	invite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 said	ccomp
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 General	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 General	det
12	General	General	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 invited	obl
13	also	also	ADV	_	9 invited	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 invited	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 invited	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 General	det
18	General	General	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 drew	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 drew	cc
21	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 said	conj
22	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 drew	obj
23	up	up	ADP	_	21 drew	compound:prt
24	till	till	SCONJ	_	26 stood	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 stood	nsubj
26	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 drew	advcl
27	quite	quite	ADV	_	29 inch	advmod
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 inch	det
29	inch	inch	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stood	obl
30	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 stood	xcomp
31	than	than	ADP	_	32 before	case
32	before	before	ADV	_	30 higher	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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

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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