Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 62
Jens Glob laid a complaint against the bishop, and summoned him before the temporal and the spiritual court.
Who acts: Jens · What happens: lay, summon · To what, where: complaint, bishop
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 (Jens), 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 | Jens | Jens | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 laid | nsubj |
| 2 | Glob | Glob | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Jens | flat |
| 3 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 complaint | det |
| 5 | complaint | complaint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 laid | obj |
| 6 | against | against | ADP | _ | 8 bishop | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bishop | det |
| 8 | bishop | bishop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 laid | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 summoned | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 summoned | cc |
| 11 | summoned | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 laid | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 summoned | obj |
| 13 | before | before | ADP | _ | 15 temporal | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 temporal | det |
| 15 | temporal | temporal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 summoned | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 court | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 court | det |
| 18 | spiritual | spiritual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 court | amod |
| 19 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 temporal | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | past | Jens | a complaint | the bishop | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent complaint=Theme against bishop=Destination | |||
| 2 | summon | past | Jens not said here | bishop | before the temporal and the spiritual court | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
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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