Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 5, sentence 63

“But the Raven?” asked little Gerda.

Who acts: Raven · What happens: ask · To what, where: little Gerda

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Raven), 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	_	7 asked	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 Raven	cc
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Raven	det
4	Raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 asked	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 Raven	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 Raven	punct
7	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Gerda	amod
9	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 asked	iobj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	the Raven		little Gerda				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent gerda=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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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