Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 19

“What of?” asked the neighbor's wife.

Who acts: wife · What happens: ask

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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	_	6 asked	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 asked	obj
3	of	of	ADP	_	2 What	case
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 What	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 What	punct
6	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 neighbor	det
8	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wife	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 neighbor	case
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 asked	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	the neighbor's wife						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=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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