Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 104

The General certainly seemed to grow an inch taller, assumed a more stately demeanor, and took two steps backward and one step forward, as if he were dancing a minuet, and then came as much gravity and expression into the face of the General as the General could contrive to infuse into it; but he replied,

Who acts: General · What happens: seem, grow, assume, take, dance, come · To what, where: inch, stately demeanor, minuet, much gravity, face

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), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 General	det
2	General	General	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 seemed	nsubj
3	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	4 seemed	advmod
4	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 grow	mark
6	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 seemed	xcomp
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 inch	det
8	inch	inch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grow	obj
9	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 grow	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 assumed	punct
11	assumed	assume	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seemed	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 demeanor	det
13	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 stately	advmod
14	stately	stately	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 demeanor	amod
15	demeanor	demeanor	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 assumed	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 took	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 took	cc
18	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seemed	parataxis
19	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 steps	nummod
20	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 backward	obl:unmarked
21	backward	backward	ADV	_	18 took	advmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 step	cc
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 step	nummod
24	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 took	conj
25	forward	forward	ADV	_	18 took	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 dancing	punct
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 dancing	mark
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 dancing	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 dancing	nsubj
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 dancing	aux
31	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 took	advcl
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 minuet	det
33	minuet	minuet	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 dancing	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 came	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 came	cc
36	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 came	advmod
37	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 took	conj
38	as	as	ADV	_	39 much	advmod
39	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 gravity	amod
40	gravity	gravity	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 came	obj
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 expression	cc
42	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 gravity	conj
43	into	into	ADP	_	45 face	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 face	det
45	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 came	obl
46	of	of	ADP	_	48 General	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 General	det
48	General	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 face	amod
49	as	as	SCONJ	_	53 contrive	mark
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 General	det
51	General	General	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 contrive	nsubj
52	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 contrive	aux
53	contrive	contrive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 General	advcl
54	to	to	PART	_	55 infuse	mark
55	infuse	infuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 contrive	xcomp
56	into	into	ADP	_	57 it	case
57	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 infuse	obl
58	;	;	PUNCT	_	61 replied	punct
59	but	but	CCONJ	_	61 replied	cc
60	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 replied	nsubj
61	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seemed	parataxis
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	the General				certainly property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	grow	to-infinitive	the General not said here	a inch			tall property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location inch=Theme
3	assume	past	the General not said here	a stately demeanor				vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent demeanor=Theme
4	take	past					backward, forward property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	dance	past · progressive	General	a minuet				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location minuet=Theme
6	come	past		much gravity and expression	the face	then		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gravity=Theme
7	contrive	could	the General					tree rules
8	infuse	to-infinitive	the General not said here		face			tree rules
9	reply speech: assert	past	General					vn respond-113 «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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