Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 28

He summoned the widow before a law court; but what did he gain thereby?

Who acts: bishop · What happens: summon, gain · To what, where: widow

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bishop), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 summoned	nsubj
2	summoned	summon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 widow	det
4	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 summoned	obj
5	before	before	ADP	_	8 court	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 court	det
7	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 court	compound
8	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 summoned	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 gain	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 gain	cc
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 gain	obj
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 gain	aux
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 gain	nsubj
14	gain	gain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 summoned	parataxis
15	thereby	thereby	ADV	_	14 gain	advmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 summoned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	summon	past	bishop		the widow		before a law court		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent widow=Recipient
2	gain	past · do-support	bishop					thereby property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme

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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