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title: Jens Glob laid a complaint against the bishop, and summoned him befo… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Jens Glob laid a complaint against the bishop, and summoned him before the temporal and the spiritual court. Who acts: Jens. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 62

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Jens Glob laid a complaint against the bishop, and summoned him before the temporal and the spiritual court.

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**Who acts:** Jens · **What happens:** lay, summon · **To what, where:** complaint, bishop

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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.

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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:pg27200:12:62
# text = Jens Glob laid a complaint against the bishop, and summoned him before the temporal and the spiritual court.
1	Jens	Jens	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Glob	Glob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	complaint	complaint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	against	against	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bishop	bishop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	summoned	summon	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	before	before	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	temporal	temporal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	spiritual	spiritual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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